Sentence examples for clay beneath from inspiring English sources

Mrs. Hart was a potter; her hands were tools, unbeautiful, clay beneath her nails, calluses on her palms.

The future may have overtaken the present, but the clay beneath Eric's feet is still capable of active revolt.

However, with the Spanish sun on his back and the red clay beneath his feat, Nadal flared his nostrils and did his job.

After sitting beside the court for several minutes, staring at the damp clay beneath his chair, Sampras walked off the court and into the tunnel.

Locals blame the soft clay beneath and a design flaw as they bless the 17th-century buttresses that reinforce the building.

The cables, coiled in huge steel baskets on the deck of the ship, were custom-made in a factory near Naples to survive for decades in the muck and clay beneath the Hudson.

Since the 16th century, the city has pumped water from deep wells to satisfy its thirst, causing the clays beneath the surface to sink as water is sucked from them, rather like a dry sponge.

The slip was sometimes carved away, revealing the contrasting colour of the clay body beneath.

The plaster had come away from the house's outside wall, exposing the clay bricks beneath.

The poorly developed Blue Ridge soils lack clay accumulation beneath the surface, which renders them unsuited to farming.

The island's early settlers survived, she explained, by digging holes in the impermeable clay soil beneath bushes and trees and simply waiting for them to drip-fill.