loam
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“A nice scent—really earthy. It smelled like loam soil.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2023
Her foot sank into the loam a little too much, and she jerked back, heart pounding.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
It is most common in sandy or gravelly loams, and is absent from the hard clay soils.
From The Mammals of Washtenaw County, Michigan Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, No. 123 by Norman Wood
The result is a great destruction of the humus of the soil, and great leaching and washing, especially in the light loams of the hill country of the United States.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
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
Soil.—The soils of the lowlands are prevailing sandy loams, with a covering of rich mould.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Good loams may be plowed at all times except when excessively wet.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
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