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• The whiffy smell of the compost pile made me turn away.From the entry whiffy
• She mixed up peat moss, humus, and compost to make potting soil.From the entry mix up
• Leaves and grass will break down into compost faster if you keep them moist.From the entry break down
• Compost is generally the best mulching material for the home garden.From the entry mulching
• She prefers her own semi-homemade potting soil — she starts with one from the hardware store and then adds her own special compost.From the entry semi-homemade
• He made a gesture that incorporated the compost heap, the polytunnels, and the potting bench.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 24. From the entry polytunnel
• If your soil is alkaline, simply grow acid-lovers in containers of ericaceous (acid) potting compost.2013, Simon Akeroyd, Allotment Handbook, →ISBN. From the entry ericaceous
• In a compost bin or wormery, they disappear even faster, but composting pet waste is controversial.2009, Anna Shepard, How Green are My Wellies?. From the entry biobag
• At first I tried to handle the seasonal winnowings with a large three-bin compost device.2007 October 20, Thomas C. Cooper, “How Green Is My Garden?”, in New York Times. From the entry winnowing
• After my dishcloths attain holeyness, I give them a decent burial in my compost pile.2006, Ellen Sandbeck, Organic Housekeeping, Scribner, →ISBN, page 120. From the entry holeyness
• Letting your chooks clean the compost of curl grubs will make it fairly safe to put on the garden.2025 June 7, The Australian Weekend Magazine, Australia, page 45, column 1. From the entry chook
• On the way in, I passed a small exhibit of zero-flush, eco-flush, and composting toilets in gleaming white.2024 April, Joe Roman, Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World, Profile, page 96. From the entry peecycling
• I have two Hotboxes for composting garden and kitchen waste.2021, Alys Fowler, Eat What You Grow. From the entry hotbox
• Black Kow composted manure is a tomato-phile favorite.2010 October 9, Barbara Marshall, “It’s The Perfect Time To Plant Tomatoes”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 41, number 15, page 3F. From the entry tomato-phile
• The next day in class, Luisa used a clean diaper to explain how she was going to make compost.2005, Rachel Hayward, The Science Fair, Learning Media Limited, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry diaper stuffing
• The use of mechanical debaggers to remove plastic bags, whether before or after composting, has been only partially successful.1993, Herbert F. Lund, The McGraw-Hill recycling handbook, page 26-16. From the entry debagger
• YIMBY encompasses home composting, "grass cycling" and landscape alteration.1993, BioCycle - Volume 34, Issues 1-6, page 34. From the entry yimby
• The use of sterilized compost when planting should minimize problems with weeds, at least for the first years.1992, Christopher Brickell, editor, The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening, London: BCA by arrangement with Dorling…. From the entry first year
• Mix about a 3½-inch (9 cm) flowerpotful of blood, fish and bone fertiliser with a barrow-load of compost.1988, Geoff Hamilton, The First Time Garden, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry flowerpotful
• The purpose of ropeline is mainly to carry down fodder grass, firewood and animal compost from hill to settlement.1985, Tejvir Singh, Integrated Mountain Development, page 417. From the entry ropeline
• There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse, →ISBN. From the entry night soil
• Several of the pits are owned by the nightsoilers themselves who sell the composted material to various stores for retail trade.1915, Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1913, Part II, William Stanley Ray, State…. From the entry poudrette
• The material for compost shall never be put in a pit; the air cannot reach it; nonaired compost rots and smells bad.2021, Lech Wojciech Szajdak, Nitrogen in Agricultural Landscape. From the entry nonaired
• The Rules is a veritable compost heap of do's and (mostly) don't's for a woman—oops, girl—who wants to master the fine art of womanipulation.2010, Ellen Goodman, Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times. From the entry how-to
• From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum. From the entry rotting
• Even nongardening urbanites have begun saving kitchen scraps and yard wastes for their composting neighbors, in order to cut their trash disposal costs.1992, Deborah L Martin, Grace Gershuny, The Rodale book of composting. From the entry nongardening
• What I conclude from this admittedly narrow data base is that, while the malaphor flourishes in bureaucratic compost, it will grow just about anywhere.1977, Benefit Payments Report, California Dept. of Benefit Payments, Health and Welfare Agency, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry malaphor
• "People have asked us for practical advice about how to grow a certain plant, what to feed them with, what compost to buy, as if we're a garden centre!2024 January 10, Nick Brodrick, “Community spirit grows in station garden”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 75. From the entry garden centre
• With Rhododendron, iron chlorosis occurred when alkaline compost was incorporated, but it was easily corrected by incorporating sulfur into the media or applying a folier spray containing iron.2013, Marco de Bertoldi, The Science of Composting, page 421. From the entry folier
• The canals, compost heaps, and tenfoots (Hullish for laneway) of O'Brien's poems recall the mouldy suburban landscapes of Raymond Briggs's Fungus the Bogeyman, and no less than in Briggs.2013, The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, →ISBN. From the entry Hullish
• Each time he visited my family he taught us one or two aspects of biointensive mini-farming, including double- digging, compost, offset planting, and natural pest control techniques.2008, Matthew Stein, When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry biointensive
• It thrives on compost and natural fertilizers brewed from comfrey or seaweed and uses only rain, natural groundwater or wastewater purified through a system of reed beds.2007 April 25, Kim Severson, “Farmer, Cookie Maker, Ecologist and, Yes, the Future King”, in New York Times. From the entry comfrey
• To behold earth itself as compost (rather than a small section or heap of it) is to behold it in the condition of rottedness and manure, of waste and leavings.1980, Enid Rhodes Peschel, Medicine and literature, page 197. From the entry rottedness

Meaning of compost

1. noun The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer.
2. noun A medium in which one can cultivate plants.
3. noun A mixture; a compound.

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How do you use compost in a sentence?

Compost is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.”

What is a short sentence with compost?

“Black Kow composted manure is a tomato-phile favorite.”

What does compost mean?

Compost means the decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer.