How to Use on earth in a Sentence

on earth

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  • How on earth can something no thicker than a trash bag save your life?
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026
  • Those run through an email account from a bedroom in any city on earth.
    Taylor Reilly, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Better than any item on earth, gold keeps its real value and has done so for thousands of years.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • China now has more robotaxis deployed than anywhere else on earth.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
  • Few countries on earth have as clear as football identity as the Netherlands.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • Capacity is spoken for before it is built, and the largest buyers on earth are being turned away.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Sign up here to talk with one of the smartest reporters on earth about this complicated, frustrating issue.
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 July 2026
  • No wonder many on social media were questioning what on earth the referee was watching.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Giraffes are some of the most recognizable creatures on earth, with their towering height and craning long necks.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 18 July 2026
  • These yellow dots would hop from planet to planet, until eventually landing on earth.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 July 2026
  • Hunger, in this narrative, belongs to poorer nations, not to the wealthiest country on earth.
    Harry M. Kaiser, Washington Post, 10 July 2026
  • Is everyone in Miami — or anywhere on earth, for that matter — completely stressed out?
    Connie Ogle june 30, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • The most profitable company on earth belongs almost entirely to a government.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • There is no more powerful person on earth than the president of the United States, as humans measure power.
    Tom Campbell, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
  • The three men have been football fans for years, and spoke with me about what goes into making the World Cup sound different than any other sporting event on earth.
    Jack Cosbie, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026
  • Singapore Airlines competes in one of the most unforgiving industries on earth.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Queen Elizabeth was thought to consider Balmoral her favorite place on earth—but Princess Diana was not a fan.
    Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 21 July 2026
  • While the largest demographic shift humankind has ever seen is rearranging every economy on earth, capital is asleep.
    The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Which is lovely, tasteful and, in the case of a celebration expected to draw some of the most famous people on earth, almost certainly wishful thinking.
    Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2026
  • That design is now colliding with the most technologically fluid payments corridor on earth.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Zionism is a simple idea, which is that Jews have the same rights, not more rights, but also not fewer rights, than every other people on earth have to sovereignty in their national homeland.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • The fastest streetbikes on earth, The GSX-R, R1, and the Fireblade, were running mid-tens on a good day.
    New Atlas, 13 July 2026
  • Alemán is also aiming to visit the coldest and hottest places on earth, Oymyakon and Death Valley, respectively, according to Benaim.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 17 July 2026
  • From there, go south to the Crazy Horse Memorial in the town of Crazy Horse, which is the biggest mountain carving on earth and has been under construction for decades.
    Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • By then Tanacharison is telling Washington that he is mystically protected, in the mode of certain Indigenous warriors who were placed on earth to be leaders.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 July 2026
  • No one on earth can convince me that Bo Nix (+2400) is a favorite over Christian Mcaffrey (+15000).
    Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • With less snow on the ground each year to deflect the sun, and the warming Arctic nearby, where rapidly melting sea ice leaves more ocean to absorb the sun’s energy, Europe is warming faster than any other region on earth.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
  • The New River, which snakes through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, may be one of the oldest river systems on earth.
    Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • Taxing that sequence requires either taxing the purchase of a digital asset, which Congress has shown no appetite for, or following the token across the border, which no tax administration on earth currently does.
    Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Such platforms might be less costly, ease constraints on earth, reduce environmental impacts and enable new capabilities for security-critical applications.
    Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 8 July 2026

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