clod

Whether it's a twig, a pebble or a clod of dirt, the randomness you get on a large scale is the same.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

Tau proteins play an important role in stabilizing neurons, but with age, they can start to clod together, forming tangles that are neurotoxic and can jam themselves into the entire intracellular space of a neuron.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022

The one of Rizzo, which was taken down on June 2, makes him look like a misshapen clod in an awkwardly buttoned jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were. as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018

One of his booted feet toes the clover-covered ground, kicking up a clod.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022

Prowling in groups of three and four, the glossy birds yanked up clumps of grass and poked through the exposed clods.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2021

But in eight weeks, I fear Boorish clods will appear Dressed as pathogens for Halloween.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020

When it comes to mitigating climate change, soil scientists are most interested in what Silver calls occluded carbon — organic material, often in the form of dead microbes, trapped in clods of dirt.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

In a senseless frenzy Tree-ear threw leaves and sticks and clods of dirt—whatever he could get his hands on.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park