EARTHY in a Sentence

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For EARTHY, below is one of 16 sentences:
So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.

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 Meanings and Examples of EARTHY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
earthy
 a.  unrefined; crude or indecent; of this world; worldly
Classic Sentence:
1  There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Ashley is too sublime for my earthy comprehension.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  She knew no man should tell such stories to his wife but they were entertaining and they appealed to something coarse and earthy in her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  She had to lose them all to realize that she loved Rhett--loved him because he was strong and unscrupulous, passionate and earthy, like herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
5  Across the track was a pasture of dwarf clover and sparse lawn cut by earthy cow-paths; beyond its placid narrow green, the rough immensity of new stubble, jagged with wheat-stacks like huge pineapples.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odours of that cave.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
7  They were as light as feathers, and the most noticeable thing about them was their penetrating, earthy odour.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
8  My window was open, and the earthy wind blowing through made me indolent.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
9  He could not have lain there long, for the earthy smell would have passed away in a few hours.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler air.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
12  From the grass rose a fresh earthy smell.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
13  Those seeds have fiery force and divine birth, so far as they are not clogged by taint of the body and dulled by earthy frames and limbs ready to die.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  His earthy remarks often embarrassed the women in his audience.
2  Grabbing my heart, this script is profound to tell a street-boy who says earthy things.
3  She has an earthy sense of humour.