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the solid part of the earth's surface
the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
he dropped the logs on the ground
the earth shook for several minutes
How To Use terra firma In A Sentence
- Recall that Dziekanski had been on terra firma for half a day before he was killed: is this a case, as I noted earlier, of "retroactive aviophobia? Archive 2008-12-01
- It all began with a swampy piece of land at the top of Liardet St, which was drained and filled to become terra firma.
- The young man's veracity seemed as solid as terra firma, and as for the body... THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
- Back on terra firma with a coldie firmly in hand, my dive buddies and I could only agree that it had been a truly spectacular day of diving - and even better, we'd had both dive sites to ourselves.
- No doubt a long swim would get you back to terra firma but, call us wimps, we weren't prepared to risk it - despite John's appeal to the adventurer in us.
- Endowed with terra firma grandeur , China is as the single uninterrupted civilization the world.
- There's lamb and lynx and lion, Yet no fowl and no fish, either, Left on my terra firma. BEHINDLINGS
- Just as quickly, the band shoves terra firma back under your feet; drums die, pianos fade, and chimes reverb in the brickblack.
- A flying squirrel munches a meal on terra firma.
- I could feel the grooved tread - bristling with conical studs - hustle mud out from under my foot and latch on to the terra firma beneath.
