Sentence examples for feel soil from inspiring English sources

I grew up on a smallholding in Cheshire and I like to feel soil under my nails.

'I feel soiled,' she says, brushing away at the tights.

I feel soiled at having consented to have my emotional strings pulled so blatantly.

I was always a bit revolted by the clinical realism of the bloodletting in "The Sopranos," which made me feel soiled for taking a sympathetic interest in the personal foibles of the men perpetrating it.

Another criticised its "constant obsession with bodily functions, sex, and the f-word"; another wrote that "it had no heart, such terrible cynicism … I feel soiled after reading it".

Some of it is local to Washington: this town's pundits feel soiled by Mr Clinton's activities in a way that the ordinary voters of Cleveland or Dallas do not.

In every single case, I felt soiled by the act of watching.

I wanted to smell the air, feel the soil and meet the people of the countries I was fascinated with".

If children don't have this relationship, if they don't feel the soil in their hands, then it really doesn't matter to them.

"But being with the plants gives me time to think and meditate, to feel the soil or clay or whatever you're working in.

Taken together, they feel like soil samples from corners of America that don't quite overlap — as atomized as dots on the electoral map.