Sentence examples for clay blowing from inspiring English sources

With Nadal about to serve, Murray raises his hand to ask him to wait, then turns his head to prevent a cloud of orange clay blowing into his face.

The ash content of dried peat varies from 2 to 20 percent, with lower values more usual because the higher ash amounts come from sand and clay blown into the peat when it was at the surface.

The remainder of the sediment comprises chiefly dust (clay particles) blown out to sea from land, and the remains of small marine plants and animals which sink from the upper layer of the ocean, known as pelagic sediments.

Allah created Adam from clay and blew His spirit into him.

"The clay was literally blowing in everybody's faces.

The conditions, with a fierce breeze blowing clay around the court, made for an error-strewn match, but Robson coped well on her first appearance at the Foro Italico.

The wind was blowing clay particles off the court and Nadal soon began to do the same to Ferrer, breaking to love again and winning 18 out of 20 points in taking the first set.

He flings it skyward like a clay pigeon then blows it, skeet-style, to smithereens.

But it exists, a patch of land roughly defined by Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell in West Yorkshire, where heavy clay ground and chill winds blowing down from the Pennines provide ideal growing conditions for this vegetable that thinks it is a fruit.

The primitive artists fashioned the stencils by taking pigment -- often red ocher or white pipe clay -- putting it in their mouths and blowing it out over a hand or boomerang to leave the shape on the wall.

The ring's job is to prevent the clay from sliding out, allowing the rocket to build up more pressure before the cap blows out.