soil

Example Sentences

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You can become infected if poo, soil or sand containing eggs from the worms gets in your mouth.

From BBC

Swiftly, her teeth gritted, she dug in the soil with her hands and lifted the ratatoska into it, covering it with earth, so that the lavellans wouldn’t eat it.

From Literature

Dishes in the sink, yellowed newspapers stacked waist high, and a soiled handkerchief next to a sagging armchair.

From Literature

Images released by state media showed Kim shovelling soil alongside other officials at a ceremony attended by an excited crowd clapping and waving North Korean flags.

From Barron's

We met at another frontline position - where mounds of dark soil formed fresh defences.

From BBC