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How to use loam in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Loam means a type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. Example: “Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.”

More sentences with loam

  • Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.From the entry shell sand
  • The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.From the entry earthy
  • Then they extract a three-angled beechnut from its cupule, weigh it, and push it into the loam.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 146. From the entry cupule
  • The substratum is white very cobby clay loam to 50 inches.1980, Lamonte C. Bingham, Soil Survey of Helena Valley, page 24. From the entry cobby
  • But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale…. From the entry bewail
  • Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43. From the entry pelophilous
  • This is not unfounded – the goolar is a 'riparian' tree, growing naturally near streams or ponds in moist, clayey loams.2006, Pradip Krishen, “Jamun-like Leaves”, in Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide, New Delhi: Dorling Kindersley (India), →ISBN, pages 56–57. From the entry gular
  • Animal products like blood, urine, manure, casein and animal glue have been used through the centuries to stabilise loam.2000, Gernot Minke, Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth in Modern Architecture, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry oxblood
  • We’ll need the tractor to turn over the loam.1995, Martha Grimes, chapter 17, in Rainbow’s End (A Richard Jury Novel; 13), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry farmling
  • The upper loam (E) has been reported to have yielded several white-patinated implements, including a large number of pointed handaxes, cordates, ovates and cleavers.1977, D. K. Bhattacharya, Dibyendu Kanti Bhattacharya, Palaeolithic Europe, page 46. From the entry cordate
  • The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry tump
  • The new track will be built of a sandy loam running surface providing improved turns and a layout with new spirals to ease entry into the turns.1991, Harness Horse - Volume 56, Issues 27-34, page 11. From the entry frontstretch
  • No longer would he help his Hampshire neighbors erect fences around the common fields in the spring or watch the plow teams turn furrows in the rich loam.1963, Sumner Chilton Powell, “Chapter I: The Web of Open-field Life”, in Puritan Village: The Formation of a New England Town, Wesleyan…. From the entry New England
  • My land is uphand black loam, which I value at fifty dollars per acre, and three crops is the most I have grown consecutively on the same ground.1905, Quarterly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, volume 19. From the entry uphand
  • Before commencing to layer, take the precaution of lightly forking the soil round the parent plant, mixing in a medium flower-potful of loam, sand, and leaf-mould to stimulate the plants.1931 July 28, “To-day in the Garden”, in The Midland Daily Telegraph, volume LXXXII, number 12,530, Coventry, page 2. From the entry flower-potful

Meaning of loam

  1. noun A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
  2. noun A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
  3. verb To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

Full definition of loam

Questions about loam in a sentence

How do you use loam in a sentence?
Loam is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.”
What is a short sentence with loam?
“We’ll need the tractor to turn over the loam.”
What does loam mean?
Loam means a type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.

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