terra

Example Sentences

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Leach recently ran his first 50K, and “my shoe choice for the event was awful,” he says of the minimalist Nike Terra Kigers that left his feet torn up from the rocky course.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Terra Lawson-Remer, chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, called the alleged thefts “a serious breach of trust.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“Mike’s always teaching,” said Terra Pashales, who pays nearly $400 a month for her two boys, Jackson and Jameson, to play on Davis’ under-16 travel-ball team.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

It had been entertaining and fascinating to find here on Gethen governments so similar to those in the ancient histories of Terra: a monarchy, and a genuine full-blown bureaucracy.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin