Earth Day

Example Sentences

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There was some concern about his mental health and whether his mental state had played a role, particularly after he told officers he was surprised that they were arresting him around Earth Day, and professed his affinity for trees.

From Los Angeles Times

A single Martian day lasts about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and a Martian year stretches across 687 Earth days compared with 365 days on Earth.

From Science Daily

I am not just talking about obvious events like Thanksgiving, Christmas and the Fourth of July, but even lower-profile occasions like Flag Day or Earth Day, or celebrations that lay outside my ethnic group’s traditions, like Cinco de Mayo.

From The Wall Street Journal

Those two events helped spark the first Earth Day, in 1970, and the shutdown of America’s last whaling station in 1971.

From Los Angeles Times

The environmental group has been conducting habitat restoration in the reserve since 2019, with this weekend’s event also a late celebration of Earth Day, after a prior event was rained out.

From Los Angeles Times