on earth

phrase

—used as an intensive

… to find out what on earth he was up to …

—Michael Holroyd

Examples of on earth in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Barring some extraordinary event — a health emergency, a career-ending scandal, a killer asteroid destroying all life on earth — Xavier Becerra will be the next governor of California. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026

This is a company with more in-house security expertise and more experience red-teaming its own frontier models than almost any organization on earth. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026

After all, from June to September, Sacramento has been ranked the sunniest city on earth, according to the World Meteorological Organization. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026

As a result, the notion of utopia became increasingly associated with the sci-fi genre, while the idea of creating a perfect social order here on earth was corrupted by totalitarian regimes. — Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for on earth

• childbirth
• rebirth
• stillbirth
• tamworth
• unearth
• afterbirth
• berth
• birth
• dearth
• firth
• girth
• mirth