Usage examples of "terre" in French with translation to English

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La pollution endommage notre terre. Pollution is damaging our earth.
Cette terre est ma propriété. This land is my property.
Le métro circule sous terre. Subways run under the ground.
Les anciens croyaient que la terre était plate. The ancients conceived of the world as flat.
Les fermiers cultivent la terre. Farmers cultivate the soil.
Nous sentîmes la terre trembler. We felt the earth tremble.
Ils ont cultivé la terre. They cultivated the land.
On a senti la terre trembler. We felt the ground trembling.
Il est le plus grand scientifique que la Terre ait portée. He is the greatest scientist that the world has ever produced.
Les vers de terre sont quelquefois utiles au sol. Worms are sometimes beneficial to soil.
La Terre est une planète. Earth is a planet.
Les colons furent arrachés à leur terre. Settlers were forced off their land.
Glorifie la mer mais reste sur terre. Glorify the ocean, but stay on the ground.
D'après la Bible, Dieu créa la Terre en six jours. According to the Bible, God made the world in six days.
Elle a mis une nouvelle terre dans le pot de fleurs. She put new soil in the flower pot.
Les plantes sont nourries parla terre. Plants are nourished by earth.
L'Amérique est une terre d'immigrants. America is a land of immigrants.
Tout le sucre est tombé par terre. All of the sugar has fallen to the ground.
Le nez de Cléopâtre, s'il eût été plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait changé. If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
En fait, la terre se réchauffe. Actually, the earth is getting warmer.
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