How To Use Face of the earth In A Sentence

  • Let the term geoid apply to the natural irregular surface of the earth and the term spheroid to the ideal regular sur - face of the geodesist which coincides nearly with sealevel and is necessarily a level surface. Transactions - American Philosophical Society
  • Since air has weight, it must press down on the surface of the earth.
  • Imperialism has never renounced the idea of annihilating socialism or of annihilating the socialist process from the face of the earth. 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH
  • With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
  • He thought that the schistose rocks had been deposited from the universal ocean, which, in the first stages of the earth's history, had covered the whole surface of the earth and had been as deep as the mountains are high. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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  • It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons, and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics . . . it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. A Renegade History of the United States
  • And while I was there, we had a boatload of refugees coming from a town called Chilong, another town that was just literally wiped off the face of the Earth.
  • Earthquake pitted the surface of the earth.
  • As opposed to the jingoist neocons who want to export the wonders of American capitalism, abortion, liberalism, and Starbucks all over the face of the earth. Matthew Yglesias » All Presidents Engage With Tyrants
  • ‘This is not an argument for wiping badgers off the face of the earth,’ he writes.
  • The website of the anti-Japanese China Federation for Defending Diaoyutai posted a photo that showed protesters in Chengdu holding a red and yellow canvas banner that called for Japan to be "wiped off the face of the earth. China Allows Rowdy Anti-Japanese Protests Over Territorial Disputes
  • He demonstrated, for example, that the atmosphere, the oceans, and most of the area on which we live on the surface of the Earth, is a biosphere.
  • I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth.
  • Even in "Consecration" we hear the challenging ring of a young voice who has wandered over the face of the earth and has taken his place with the "Outcast," has cast his lot with the sailor, the stoker, the tramp. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers
  • Within a very short period, humanity has no doubt transfigured the face of the earth by obliterating space and time through the revolution in communications and urbanisation of the world.
  • Miss Jillgall, she lifted her poor little sunken eyes rapturously to the sky, as if she called the homiest sunlight to witness that this was the most lovable woman on the face of the earth. The Legacy of Cain
  • We found the still without any problem, the experts set the charges, and BLOOEY the still was wiped off the face of the Earth.
  • Christian peoples scattered throughout Asia Minor and along the Bosporus until this barbarous Ottoman Government is swept from the face of the earth. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
  • Pockets of hot molten rock called magma collect beneath the surface of the Earth. CNN Transcript May 24, 2006
  • When she received her prize I think I was the proudest parent on the face of the Earth.
  • The manner in which the Dodo were obliterated from the surface of the earth has left a lasting impact on the natural history of our global eco-system: in fact a lesson in extinction to humanity. A brief history of the dodo
  • You are scum, befouling the surface of the earth.
  • The Bad Nigger desegregated the South and, in one of the great ironies in American history, he did so by speaking through the man whose mission was to wipe him from the face of the earth: the apostle of nonviolence, Martin Luther King. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Orography is the term used to describe undulations on the surface of the Earth of any size and shape, from small hills to major mountain ranges.
  • Go thy ways, old Jack; die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
  • This does not mean expensive avoidance schemes or illegal evasion scams, or even disappearing from the face of the earth.
  • This is, I verily believe it, the worst used labouring people upon the face of the earth.
  • We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth. No to the Nazis
  • Thus Ritter interprets him as supposing ` ` that the earth is in the centre spherical, and maintained in rotary motion by its equiponderance; around it lie certain rings, the highest composed of the rare element fire, the next lower a compound of light and darkness, and lowest of all one wholly of night, which probably indicated to his mind the surface of the earth, the centre of which again he probably considered to be fire. '' A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
  • When the atmosphere is of the same weight and density orer a considerable extent of the surface of the earth, there a calm will obtain: but if this equipoise is taken off, a stream of air, or. wind, is produced, stronger or weaker in proportion to the alteration made in the state of the atmosphere* There are direr* causes which make these alterations in the equipoise of the atmosphere, such as rarefactions or conden - sations in one part more than in another; yapoura rising from the earth or sea, pressure of the clouds, &c. The Complete Weather Guide: A Collection of Practical Observations for Prognosticating the ...
  • The Arabs I've met don't view Jews as evil and needing to be eradicated from the face of the earth; they view those that wish them harm warily, and all Jews as people. All we are saying...
  • All over the world, if not every day then in every age, beautiful paintings and poems and pieces of music and buildings are generated: one can almost imagine little flaring lights on the surface of the earth, like those seen in photos from space, though they are much more sparse and scattered than the illuminating devices that bespeckle our globe. PoetryFoundation.org
  • And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. Think Progress » Buchanan: Americans Should Consider Allowing Only White Immigrants
  • After I left him it was like he wanted to wipe me off the face of the earth.
  • This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth.
  • It was as if he disappeared off the face of the earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Earthquake pitted the surface of the earth.
  • Once hunger and disease, the by-products of poverty, are cleared from the face of the earth the world shall be a safe place to live in.
  • Bush should apologize to the world for accomplishing one mission: removing Saddam, a (formerly) harmless loveable fuzzball from the face of the earth. Obama Keeps Shrinking Those "Little brain" White Male Penises
  • Probably because over the past twenty odd years, many such pillocks have had a pretty good go at wiping yours truly off the face of the earth with their poorly piloted tin boxes.
  • They seem bent on taking the world back to an even more remote past, to when chaos lay on the face of the Earth; a time recorded in the Book of Genesis.
  • Thus: -- Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time. Lectures and Essays
  • If a line were drawn through all points on the surface of the earth having an equal barometric pressure at the same time, such a line would be called an isobar. General Science
  • That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise.
  • It spoke of the difference of the two in the means and ends proposed, and of the trifling grievances of our fathers compared with the wrongs and sufferings of the slaves, which it forcibly characterized as unequalled by any others on the face of the earth. The Complete Works of Whittier
  • Another few years and this species could be wiped off the face of the earth.
  • The Republicans are the whiniest group of people on the face of the earth. MN GOP calls Franken-Lieberman incident an 'embarrassment'
  • Steinbrenner, who after all these years still doesn't appear to realize he's one of the luckiest men on the face of the earth, seems to relish in demeaning the efforts and accomplishments of his staff. USATODAY.com - Relax, Joe, you don't need this
  • How do you stand out from the crowd when the crowd is among the loudest, wildest concentrations of extrovert party animals on the face of the Earth?
  • Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship, and plow, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? Matthew Yglesias » What Theda Skocpol Said
  • On the surface of the earth, the shortest path between two points (taking one of the points to be the North Pole) is along the meridian of fixed longitude connecting the North Pole to the other point.
  • Once hunger and disease, the by-products of poverty, are cleared from the face of the earth the world shall be a safe place to live in.
  • Man is a comparatively new creature on the surface of the earth.
  • During the past five thousand years of (apparently) accelerating volution, mankind was spread over the face of the earth and thus faced a variety of divergent environments. You Tell Me That It’s Evolution
  • In continental plate tectonics what seems static, the surface of the earth, is in reality in constant flux.
  • It is contained in four-dimensional space, and is defined as the set of points at a fixed distance from a given point, just as the two-dimensional sphere (skin of an orange or surface of the earth) is defined as the set of points in three-dimensional space at a fixed distance from a given point (the center). Poincaré Conjecture « Anglican Samizdat
  • As I don't, I merely smile again, and say "Yes" to Jenkyns Soames, who is giving me his reasons for supposing, by calculation, that vegetables have had a pre-adamite existence, and that even a turnip may have a glorious future before it, when man has disappeared from the face of the earth. Happy-Thought Hall
  • Since air has weight, it must press down on the surface of the earth.
  • This cap was called Tarnkappe, and without it the dwarfs dared not appear above the surface of the earth after sunrise for fear of being petrified. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas
  • All the time, then, that the forces of the atmosphere are wearing down the surface of the earth to the sea level the sea is rising and its waves are producing a plain of marine denudation which rises slowly to meet the peneplain which is produced by degradation. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
  • Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter. Chapter 16
  • The thousands daily knelled out of the world, who lie in gorgeous sepulchres, or rot unburied on the surface of the earth, excite no emotion compared to that conjured up by the meanest dead at our feet. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
  • The early Christian Church was driven off the face of the earth into catacombs, but emerged to rule supreme in the very city which had driven her underground; Muhammad barely escaped from Mecca with his life, but returned to make it the centre of his creed, and Crusaders died in hopeless defeat at Hattin cursing "Mahound" with their last breath as the enemy of their faith, yet their very presence there showed how Islam had revived Christianity. Pan-Islam
  • ‘He is the biggest bounder on the face of the earth,’ says the Mirror, which awards him five rodent symbols.
  • It should be purged from the face of the earth. obamarroids DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
  • One must begin to question all of the bureaucratic impedimenta that a government-run space exploration program must carry with it when it tries to venture off the surface of the Earth.
  • Man is a comparatively new creature on the surface of the earth.
  • One arrived safely but the other two have disappeared from the face of the earth. The Sun
  • I resent the people who did this simply out of reverence for their ‘god’ (nature) and in pursuance of the ideal that the worship of this ‘god’ mandates: the total abdication or removal of modernized man from the face of the earth, for the sake of “letting nature do its thing.” Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon
  • The Sun is a strong UV emitter but only near UV reaches the surface of the Earth because the ozone in the atmosphere absorbs all wavelengths below 290 nm.
  • As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, 40 feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
  • As the workshop of the world we made everything from gizmos to doodahs, then sent them to each wrinkle on the face of the Earth.
  • Cracks began to appear in the surface of the earth.
  • My mother, who died unexpectedly five years ago, was called Gina and suddenly, despite the fact that almost the last place on the face of the earth that I imagine she would choose to make contact with me is a theatre in Potters Bar, and despite the fact that I wouldn't dream of suggesting to my father that he put himself through more heartache in such an uncertain pursuit, I'm drawn in. Among the psychics
  • I'm not considering the one sport which portrays itself as the most manly sport on the face of the earth.
  • It was as if he disappeared off the face of the earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • I mean the restoration of oxygen to the atmosphere from the surface of the earth in dewy mornings, as well as from the perspiration of vegetable leaves; which atmospheric oxygen is hourly destructible by the respiration of animals and plants, by combustion, and by other oxydations. Note XII
  • The whole tribe seem to have disappeared off the face of the earth.
  • The only reason that English isn't your second language after German -- he only reason the Congress isn't called the Reichstag -- the only reason the president isn't called the Fuhrer (by sane people) -- is that the blood of more than one million Americans and the toil and sacrifice of millions more scrubbed the stain of Nazism from the face of the earth. Sound Politics: Pressure on Democrats Building
  • pitahaya" (_Cereus giganteus_), with columnar shafts and straight upright arms, like the branches of gigantic candelabra; the echino-cacti, too -- those huge mammals of the vegetable world, resting their globular or egg-shaped forms, without trunk or stalk, upon the surface of the earth. The Rifle Rangers
  • We must be sure that once victory is achieved, we win the peace and see to it that wars are forever abolished from the face of the earth. Embattled Britain
  • Cook tells us that men and women of all ranks were the "arrantest thieves upon the face of the earth," yet they seemed to feel that the act of theft was wrong, for if charged with being guilty when they were in reality innocent, they were often moved to passionate indignation. The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas
  • Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California, called Perry's approach "the screwiest policy I have ever seen with one of the weirdest regimes on the face of the earth. Chemical Nightmares
  • P: If Allah took mankind to task by that which they deserve, He would not leave a living creature on the surface of the earth; but He reprieveth them unto an appointed term, and when their term cometh - then verily (they will know that) Allah is ever Seer of His slaves. Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
  • The cities of Padua and Verona were wiped from the face of the earth; and the last glories of Venice sank for ever beneath the sea as the waters of the Adriatic came - thundering landwards after the hammer-blow from space. Rendezvous With Rama
  • he appeared on the face of the earth one day
  • There were millions of human beings, no doubt, living and acting and suffering on the surface of the earth, outside the stellary circles of which Louis and London Pride Or When the World Was Younger
  • As it ascends towards the surface of the earth, it passes through the SiC layer, and reacts with the Si and the C to form CH4 (methane) and SiH4 (silane). Should Keller's Thin Sections Be Independently Tested? « Climate Audit
  • Alas he also found himself alone in the fourth dimension upon the surface of the earth.
  • Most of this -- and -- and, folks, get ready -- this is a nerd alert for you -- most of this is virga, which is precipitation that's so light, it's not even reaching the surface of the Earth. CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2006
  • This irregularity is very considerable at the surface of the earth. Census of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, For the Year 1861. Illustrated by Statistical Tables. Prepared under the Authority of the City Council by Frederick A. Ford
  • Chavez 'response to the alleged plotters is a brash "Bring it on!" and warns that, if they try, he'll "demolish" them ... obliterate them off the face of the earth! Fanatics who want to help that great "Christian," Pat Robertson to "eliminate" Chavez from the face of the earth!
  • The plumula being thus swelled, as it were, by the emulsive fluid, raises itself and springs up to the surface of the earth, bearing with it the cotyledons, which, as soon as they come in contact with the air, spread themselves, and are transformed into leaves. Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
  • Will McDaniels buck conventional wisdom, ignore an obvious team need and not select Alabama linebacker Rolando McClain, as every draftnik on the face of the earth now seems to be predicting? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • Christianity, Islam, and all other god-based mythologies need to disappear once and for all, be banished from the face of the earth. Think Progress » Catholic League: Church Abuse Scandal Is A Crisis Of ‘Homosexuality,’ Not ‘Pedophilia’
  • Cycads throve so spectacularly in the Jurassic, comprising perhaps 20 percent of the flora on the face of the earth, that another name for the era is the Age of Cycads. Birdology
  • An altimeter measures the distance from the satellite, where the altimeter is placed, to the surface of the Earth. Archive 2009-02-01
  • They were scattered abroad over the face of the earth.
  • The invisible lines of magnetic force on which our compasses rely are parallel to the surface of the Earth only near the equator, becoming ever more vertical as we approach the magnetic poles.
  • When space weather stirs up the great electric current in the sky - the auroral electrojet - the magnetic field at the surface of the Earth starts to vary.
  • The lindworm, with its flat head and duck's beak, darted after fish, and crept up to the surface of the earth through the slimy ways of mire and marsh. Weird Tales from Northern Seas
  • You people are the most messed up morons on the face of the Earth!
  • Without the assistance of the United States, we would be allowing an entire nation to be eradicated from the face of the earth, again. Think Progress » ADL asserts Gen. Petraeus ‘erred’ in his recent congressional testimony.
  • And I will be more powerful than any other on the face of the earth or in the underworld.
  • And in any case, what your general quote certainly does not establish is even the claim that the surface of the earth corresponding to Alaska in the Triassic period was, in fact, in a zone much closer to the equator; it speaks in general possibilities, not about the specific case of Alaska. Wonk Room » Perplexed By Science: Joe Barton Wonders If Oil Reached The North Pole From A Secret Texas Pipeline
  • Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time. Essays
  • In this way a small area of the surface of the earth is converted into a hygroscope, and these test surfaces tell us whether the ground is cooled to the dew-point or not. Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
  • The harvester of bamboo shoots looks for cracks on the surface of the earth and digs up the emerging shoots almost before they come out.
  • When she received her prize I think I was the proudest parent on the face of the Earth.
  • He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Animals and plants began their existence together, not long after the commencement of the deposition of the sedimentary rocks; and then succeeded one another, in such a manner, that totally distinct faunae and florae occupied the whole surface of the earth, one after the other, and during distinct epochs of time. Essays
  • This happens when the shadow cone of the Moon intersects the surface of the Earth, and is observable by anyone within this shadow zone.
  • I testify, moreover, that Thou hast decreed that none on the face of the earth should equal Them, and none of Thy creatures be able to be compared with any of Them, in order that Thine own singleness and peerlessness might be recognized and established. Prayers and Meditations
  • If polio is stamped out, it will become only the second major human disease to be wiped off the face of the earth.
  • Unrebuked, the skies now reveal the brightness of day, now shroud the daylight in the darkness of night; the year may now engarland the face of the earth with flowers and fruits, now disfigure it with storms and cold. Consolation of Philosophy
  • The number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small…in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are Germans also, the Saxons only accepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. Think Progress » Pat Buchanan’s Anti-Hispanic Rhetoric Echoes Earlier Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
  • More likely is the reradiation from the surface of the earth to the black body of space at night. The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Scientists, Unfiltered
  • Under prohibition, drugs are controlled by the law of the jungle in which some of the worst criminals on the face of the earth rule supreme.
  • My fastball was unhittable, my changeup was devastating, and my curveball dropped off the face of the earth.
  • Since air has weight, it must press down on the surface of the earth.
  • These men and women loved America and understood who the enemy was and why the enemy had to be not only defeated but obliterated from the face of the earth. The new McCarthyism

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