Sentence examples for clods from inspiring English sources

When asked what inspired his poetry, Clare replied that it "came to him in the fields, whilst walking", that he had "kicked it out of the clods".

(The board members in question deny, or claim not to remember, having made remarks along these lines at public meetings).Intelligent design's more sophisticated proponents, such as the Discovery Institute in Seattle, are too polite to say they hate to see their ideas championed by such clods.

Rollers, or pulverizers, with V-shaped wheels make a firm and continuous seedbed while crushing clods.

Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable.

One approach involves breaking the land and planting seeds in the tractor tracks (wheel-track planting); the tractor weight crushes clods and leaves the seed surrounded by firm soil.

The surface texture of the earth may vary from fine sand or silt to coarse clods, gravel, or boulders.

Root crops are harvested with diggers and digger-pickers, which often pull up clods, stones, and vines with the crop.

Corrugated rollers, single or tandem, crush clods and firm the soil after plowing.

If too wet or too dry, the power requirements for shattering dry clods or cutting wet ones are prohibitive when using tillage alone.

When his beef pie (£14) arrives, he looks a little crestfallen that it's quite mannered (for which read small and neat), but what it lacks in Desperate Dan qualities, it makes up for in taste – rich, very short pastry, a layer of garlicky, buttery sauce and unctuous gravy, with clods of meltingly soft beef.

He raced in his socks to the garage, threw his shoes into the garage, ran for the vacuum, vacuumed up the micro-clods, then realized, holy golly, he had thrown his shoes into the garage rather than placing them on the Shoe Sheet as required, toes facing away from the door for ease of donnage later.