Sentence examples for clay rather than from inspiring English sources

Because cuneiform was written in clay (rather than, say, on papyrus) and important texts were baked for posterity, a good amount of it survives today.

Gérald Ouzounian, the international director at Andra, said that research had found that this hard clay had a water content of just 15 percent, and that water remained in the clay rather than moving through it.

And in the background, the choice of clay rather than earth or mud reminds the reader that these trenches would end up serving as graves for many of these same bodies.

The model is usually clay rather than plaster because if the forms of the sculpture are at all complex it is easier to remove a plaster mold from a soft clay model than from a model in a rigid material, such as plaster.

The brick makers tend to use the best soil which has less clay rather than soil which has more clay.

These customers were sold what appeared to be sealed iPad 2s, but turned out to contain slabs of clay rather than, you know, iPad 2s.

That's why we call targets clay pigeons rather than clay pheasants, and it's why they are traditionally blue to resemble the "blue meteor", as the fast-flying passenger pigeon was also known.

For example, shale rock in China tends to contain considerably more clay than the shale in much of the U.S., and clay deforms rather than fractures under pressure.

Makaha became one of the first skateboard companies to make a professional model, for the surfer Phil Edwards, and the first to use clay wheels rather than steel, providing a smoother ride and more maneuverability.

The small changes in seismic response were likely driven by sample hydration and clay swelling rather than CaCO3 precipitation.

Otherwise, the middle part of the model domain is not affected by this phenomenon due to the effect of the great aquifer thickness and the presence of thin clay layers rather than the geologic structural impact (Salem et al. 2010; Gad et al. 2011; Youssef et al. 2012).