clods
- plural of clod.
Example Sentences
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As Teichman looked on, a few farmhands gingerly coaxed the cuttings out of the plastic sleeves, exposing young roots tangled in clods of soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022
Prowling in groups of three and four, the glossy birds yanked up clumps of grass and poked through the exposed clods.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
When it comes to mitigating climate change, soil scientists are most interested in what Silver calls occluded carbon — organic material, often in the form of dead microbes, trapped in clods of dirt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018
Finally he got them to the side of the road, where they sat and shivered and spit up mud clods.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
