Example Sentences

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They discovered three principal predictors of nematode numbers: soil sandiness, carbon quantity and acidity.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2019

They had an initial crunch and then a sandiness that marks the best sablés.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2017

Again he was glad of the soil’s sandiness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

Malachi was very tall, very thin, and very round-shouldered, and the sandiness of his hair also cried aloud for an adjective.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

In truth, a degree of sandiness is characteristic of dry-farm soils.

From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas