adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
life
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Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all.
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Believers wanted to be detached in many ways from earthly life and attached to heavenly life through a process called salvation.
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Surely, though, he performed quite enough miracles in his earthly life .
paradise
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All men go through life clinging to an idea of an earthly paradise .
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There are waterfalls and cascades, cliffs and rocks, native trees and rampant heather in an earthly paradise .
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But a new element in Montaigne's essay was its suggestion that the earthly paradise might be a still existing real place.
reason
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Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?
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There seemed to be no earthly reason for the Bureau to resist such status-but it did.
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As far as I could tell, there was no earthly reason for Fanshawe to have chosen me for this job.
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There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be able to move like these young athletes.
use
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It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Buddha taught that earthly existence is full of suffering.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Believers wanted to be detached in many ways from earthly life and attached to heavenly life through a process called salvation.
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Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale, having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure.
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In its upright form it represents the vertical thrust of life across sedimentary layers of earthly matter.
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Remind us again Lord, that we can pray, and that your sovereignty is greater than any earthly power.
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Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?
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They become bogeymen, earthly Aliens, and -- despite the fake human faces they develop -- very easy to spot.
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They were seen as the earthly links to the gods of the underworld.
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What earthly cause could there be for him to think they are both working on the same side now?