Sentence examples for be earthed from inspiring English sources
noun
Soil.
- This is good earth for growing potatoes.
To keep the vegetable white, the asparagus bed must be earthed up into mounds and the shoots cut just as they appear at the surface.
By November, the first onions will have subdivided into clusters of slender calçots, which need to be earthed up or calcar – "shoed" – to encourage them to grow long and white.
It is important that the neutral of a power system be earthed, otherwise this could "float" all over with respect to true ground, thereby stressing the insulation above its design capability.
"On a day when the leaves and hearts are dry," we are told, it's time to blanch them: "Wrap cardoons with 'collars' of newspaper, corrugated cardboard, brown wrapping paper or black polyethylene tied firmly around the stems.... Alternatively cardoons can be earthed up.
The animal was earthed to the instrumentation ground.
But rest assured: They were earth-shattering.
Colors had to be earth tones.
All of this dust hurrying to be earth again".
Kepler-10b may be Earth-sized, but it's hardly Earth-like.
Radical need not be earth shattering.
