earth up

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc

Example Sentences

In a famous story, a medieval cosmologist is asked what holds the earth up.

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“You can’t just shovel earth up there, you need to find a way of anchoring it, and then you also have to anchor a ski surface, plants, trees. It starts to get complicated.”

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Winnie, the central character — really the only one — is immured in earth up to her waist.

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"What it does to the earth up there is disgusting," he said.

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In a revival of his two-act play “Happy Days,” she played a woman buried in a mound of earth up to her neck.

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