Sentence examples for clump of ground from inspiring English sources

"We're trying to bring a little common sense to forest policy," Mr. Bush said to two firefighters pouring dirt on a smoldering clump of ground.

Mr. Vigtel invited thousands of Atlanta schoolchildren to the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new museum building, handing them tiny shovels with which to turn up clumps of ground.

Gabriel Gebremariam steps down from a dry stony terrace over large clumps of earth protruding from broken ground and points despairingly to a parched river bed that hasn't seen water for two years.

Lift the loosened clump of plants and soil from the ground with a shovel.

A low-key Bocklin view of the Roman Campagna from that time is included in the show, "Pontine Marshes" (1851), a clump of foliage on rocky ground backed by an idyllic cloudscape.

He moved closer, thinking it was a clump of toadstools breaking through the ground, but there was something about the shape that bothered him.

Larvae were collected one at a time by approaching a larva at the mouth of its burrow carefully, plunging a trowel suddenly into the soil in front of the burrow at a roughly 45° angle to block the larva's retreat, and then lifting the entire clump of sand out of the ground.

Forsythia is one of many deciduous shrubs that look their best with their stems rising up in a clump from ground level into an informal, graceful fountain of foliage and flowers.

Every so often I hear from geezers who still have the clump of turf they clawed out of the ground that hazy October afternoon.

He had his left leg out of the bunker, his right leg in it, and his ball was resting on a tall clump of grass, perhaps three inches off the ground.

She fell to the ground and clung to a clump of golden yellow stalks.