earthy
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Two outstanding works, “Ranchos Church No. 1” and “Ranchos Church, No. II, NM,” both from 1929, are soft in line and earthy in color.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The star attraction are Shetland's native sheep and the earthy shades of cream, brown and black of their wool.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
It was dark and deeply moist, a little earthy without tasting particularly of vegetables, and studded throughout with hunks of chocolate.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
He could smell his brother too, a familiar scent, strong and earthy, his scent as black as his coat.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Fans of her earthier material won't be disappointed, though.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Kombuchas made from black tea and pu-erh, meanwhile, displayed richer, earthier aromas with more pronounced fermentation characteristics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
But for those of us with slightly earthier tastes, she remains the indelible Barbara Kean of the bygone, Batman-adjacent “Gotham.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
More likely, it reflects voters’ long-standing preference for earthier sounds like that of bluegrass-steeped Childers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
A wisp of steam escaped the pot's spout, and she found that she could smell it, spicy and floral amid the earthier scents of the river.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Where it runs into some turbulence — and despite the best efforts of everyone involved in director Eric Schaeffer’s accomplished production, it eventually does — is in its earthiest realm.
From Washington Post
On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Some citizens who were personally affected by the justices' rulings couldn't help but agree with the justices' earthiest criticisms of themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He knew full well that that peaceful interim would be used by Jake to raise earthworks of the earthiest kind, and to train his guns with deadly accuracy upon his enemy.
From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Ridgwell Cullum
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