Sentence examples for like a soil from inspiring English sources

"If the technicians are not aware that they need to test for this, they will just throw the culture away because it looks like a soil contaminant," Limmathurotsakul says.

Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC) is a special dry concrete made of aggregates, water and low quantity of cement, laid down and compacted like a soil, for the construction of massive structures like dams or large horizontal surfaces like road foundations.

If I had the kind of woodland garden you find in Cornwall and the west coast of Scotland, thick with magnolias, camellias, rhododendrons and other things that don't like an alkaline soil, I'd be using leaf mould, not mushroom compost for my mulch.

Sounds like a soiled fanboy's fantasy.

Warming, like a soiled trouser leg.

Like a soiled towel, an empty soda can, an old newspaper.

But like a soiled banknote, the industry retains its underlying value, Mr Adams insists.Few petrochemical companies are as crumpled as LyondellBasell, the third-biggest firm in the business, with revenues of over $50 billion last year.

After all, a political union and a common currency cannot simply be replaced like a soiled shirt.

It likes a retentive soil or good mulch.

For simplicity, the value of the second parameter, T, is calculated based on the assumption that the granular piles-soil composite behaves like a uniform soil mass with composite modulus of elasticity and Poisson's ratio, (E_{comp}) and (nu_{comp}), as follows [28].

They don't like wet feet, either, or heavy clay, and they like acid soil, with a pH between 4.5 and 6.5.