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Meanings of earthling in English
Russian
земной организм Spanish
terricola 
Inhabitants of the planet Earth; all life existing on and likely originating from Earth; currently identical to life generally to the extent known to the same.
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Examples for "life"
Examples for "life"
1
It was the crisis in his life; the parting of the ways.
2
However, overtreatment should be avoided and life-threatening infections pose a particular problem.
3
Chance events, it says, can result in multiple deaths or life-changing injuries.
4
One that can help bring life, hope and opportunity to vulnerable children.
5
DC: To continue applying good principles in my business and personal life.
1
None of the People had prophesies of the coming of the Terrans.
2
Terrans never did know how to handle a little old-fashioned animal aggression.
3
They thought the Terrans were using the living crystals to make magic.
4
Now, from a purely technological standpoint, you Terrans haven't got a chance.
5
Three Terrans, four Lunans, and a Saturnite decked out in combat gear.
1
The earthlings stared in wonder as the moaning and crunching continued unabated.
2
The earthlings huddled helplessly in their shelter, a ragged collection of refugees.
3
If there's intelligent life out there, we earthlings may yet find it.
4
It's a clever combination: to most earthlings, the moon is a mysterious place.
5
For ages, earthlings regarded lightning as an indicator of godly wrath.
1
Anyone who doubts the value of his pills is a 'flat-earther', or a pawn of the pharmaceutical industry.
2
Even having to point that out somehow plays into the liars' hands, like agreeing to a debate with a creationist or a flat-earther.
3
It was a cartoon of the Earther body type, and of violence.
4
Miller's shrug asked a question, and the Earther nodded toward the board.
5
Earther short, but with beautiful skin so dark it was almost blue.
1
Tory found the change distasteful, but most terrestrials complimented her on her tan.
2
All the terrestrials except BBC1 launched new series last night.
3
Time may show whether they have been terrestrials like ourselves.
4
Mild laughter rippled round the table, though the overcrowded terrestrials looked more envious than amused.
5
The terrestrials had assumed that water in which no free oxygen was dissolved could not support life.
1
I'm told it is Gaian tradition to permit condemned men merely a final cigarette.'
2
I snatch at these glimpses of Gaian regulation like a tribesman negotiating with seasonal gods.
3
They sang traveling songs from Tolkien and Gaian chants from last year's general council at Eugene.
4
Still no sign of Gaian male rivals.
5
This is how the ocean feeds back to the land the sulphur washed out in rivers, a typical piece of Gaian thriftiness.
1
Dinosaurs dominated terrestrial life on this planet for over 130m years.
2
The order and nature of terrestrial life, as a whole, are open questions.
3
They took up the terrestrial life because, simply put, they could.
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But will the telescope be looking for extra terrestrial life?
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Certainly, one can point to terrestrial life in general.
Usage of earthling in English
1
Pity the poor earthling caught in the toils of the moral law.
2
Yes, we have been monitoring your earthling communications, but cannot respond yet.
3
She loved her ruminations more than any other earthling she encountered.
4
This may require more than the skills of an earthling.
5
It was to be, in his words, his last day as a perfectly functioning earthling.
6
This earthling would, of course, fail in one or all the tasks to be imposed.
7
It's up to one earthling named Jonnie Goodboy Tyler to start a revolution and save mankind.
8
She had been on Earth so long she had even begun to think like an earthling.
9
While still far superior to most of his peers he looks more earthling than superhuman this season.
10
And you, earthling, shall be my emissary.
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Both feature an earthling catapulted into an alien world and trying to make sense of its unfamiliar ways.
12
I can't really be standing on earth and dealing with this earthling shit, you know what I'm saying?
13
I grant you your life, earthling.
14
I felt like an alien in a science fiction movie, one who's trying to masquerade as an earthling.
15
The absolute necessity of the bedroom tax, for example, has never been explained to any earthling using ordinary words.
16
Perhaps she will never again suffer a poor, unworthy earthling to walk in the shadow of her divine presence.
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