earthen

Example Sentences

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What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

They constructed a 35-mile earthen berm around the city in an attempt to encircle its one million residents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Next to the ruptured dam, another earthen wall is being built in preparation for the resumption of mining operations, according to government officials.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Pamela Bulahan is one of them, and she remember being 9 back in 1972, when one of those earthen barriers failed and water surged toward the town of Isleton, inundating streets.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2025

They raise me from an earthen grave, newborn like Lazarus.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein