loam

Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Small asides like these root this character-driven mystery in a spiritual loam, a reflection of Inglesby’s narrative contemplation of day-to-day living as an exercise in faith.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025

Monday morning, workers will begin placing soil — sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate — on the wildlife overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

The result, if we want to get really geeky, is a mix of clay, pure sand and sandy loam.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

The threads push through the cell wall and grow out of the cell, like grass rising from seeded loam.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

On light, sandy soils it will be found wise to turn the whole crop under with the plow, while on heavy loams this plan is of doubtful benefit.

From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous

The soil is good, however, despite the fact that each dry season the fires destroy the grasses and the loams which are necessary for their nourishment.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

Try to find the proportion of vegetable matter in each of the following: loams from various sources, sand, clay, gravel.

From Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Ministry of Education

These soils, like the sandy alluvial loams, are easy to work, retain moisture well when kept in a state of perfect tilth, and respond readily to manuring.

From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson

On clays, loams or rich soils, the vines make a rank growth, and the fruits are few, late and of poor quality.

From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick