clay

Example Sentences

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“I always dreamt of doing this. Other kids played with Play-Doh. I made stuff with anything I could get my hands on like clay, aluminum foil and discarded phone wire.”

From Los Angeles Times

I reach for the clay jar before it crashes to the floor.

From Literature

He went to the other corner of his house with the roof thatched with leaves and the walls made of deep brown clay.

From Literature

Their earlier work examined how clay minerals bind organic matter and how microbes preferentially convert certain organic compounds into carbon dioxide.

From Science Daily

He picks up some of the clay soil to show me, looking for any stones that might be hidden amongst it.

From BBC