"standard" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But by any reasonable earthly standard, this thing - a 1983 oddity, sort of a feminist, deconstructionist, riddle-filled anti-musical, much of it set on the Icelandic tundra - is pure torture.
- Yes, of course, by any earthly standard.
- But the question rises: Can our earthly standards, even remotely, be universal?
- The features of both sexes were well proportioned--there was not a face among them that would have been called even plain if judged by earthly standards.
- A soul entering a sick or damaged body, who meets and overcomes these handicaps with good cheer, grows faster spiritually than one who, by earthly standards, has everything to live for.
- CHAPTER 10 Trenco Judged by any earthly standards the planet trenco was-and is-a peculiar one indeed.
- It was grotesque by earthly standards and it was pathetic by any standard.
- There was a chance--the lesser gravity of the Moon placed the thing within the realm of possibility, and yet by all earthly standards it was impossible.
- The furniture, queerly carved and constructed along lines alien to any earthly standard, seemed to be of highly polished, iridescent wood.
- Judged by earthly standards, they were grouped peculiarly, but their formation corresponded almost exactly to our planetary system.
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