loam
Example Sentences
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At first, settling into the moist loam, the plant is an innocent sproutling, soft and gentle, harmless, edible to browsing Herefords.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Small asides like these root this character-driven mystery in a spiritual loam, a reflection of Inglesby’s narrative contemplation of day-to-day living as an exercise in faith.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 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
Pig droppings nearby clinch the identification, and then, looking around, I see Crystal’s tracks in the soft loam.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
