loam

Example Sentences

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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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

A subterranean river of grief flowed underneath the plot's sly comedy from the beginning, although Harjo and the writers wait until the second season for it to soak into its loam.

From Salon • Dec. 10, 2022

From the loam of Jutta’s memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr