Terra Firma Definition

Terra Firma Sentence Examples

• The spray deck should be released to speed up the exit from the kayak once it reaches terra firma.

• In 1406, after the extinction of these princely houses they added Verona, Vicenza and Padua to the territories they claimed on terra firma.

• During his reign the Venetians went to war with Martino della Scala, lord of Verona, with the result that they occupied Treviso and otherwise extended their possessions on the terra firma.

• Then they bend to the south-west, and, abutting upon the lower Tapajos, merge ' Igapo is thus the name given to the recent alluvial tracts along the margins of rivers, submerged by moderate floods, whereas vargem is the term used for land between the levels of moderate and high floods, while for land above this the people use the term terra firma.

• But surely this monstrous piece of maritime engineering would be so solid and stable I'd never know we'd left terra firma.