Example Sentences

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Four fresh graves hewn from claylike soil in a historic cemetery where the newly dead are crowding out the old.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2023

Workshops in conjunction with Self-Help Graphics & Art will have visitors smushing claylike minerals to create outdoor sculptures that will disintegrate into — and ideally heal — toxic soil.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

Within minutes, the path was made of mud — rich, claylike mud that was two feet deep in some patches.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2015

Production requires no electricity because the claylike filters are made at room temperature.

From Scientific American • May 7, 2013

He picked up a chunk of grayish, claylike dirt and crumbled it into my hand.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson