adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Hubble space telescope takes clearer pictures of stars than earthbound telescopes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As earthbound concrete replaced shimmering glass, so crude functionalism was to supplant soaring aspiration.
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I too can not be earthbound .
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Like them, too, in their less earthbound moments, he enjoyed the proud embracing of risk.
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The earthbound made derogatory jokes about empty cans, and turned their backs on the brash, glittering necklace of the night.
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The Blackbird, introduced in 1964 and retired in 1990, was the antithesis of a lumbering, earthbound oxcart.
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This gave greater depth to most of the patterns, but often made the dancers appear earthbound .
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To bring the same advantages to earthbound drinkers, Daedalus is inventing a low-pressure pub.
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With Gibbons, he wrote, oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness.