Sentence examples for moist clay from inspiring English sources

(In that case, moist clay was sometimes packed atop the wadding that separated the ball from the powder charge).

Yet the moist clay surface slowed the ball after the bounce, and Gabashvili beat back most of Roddick's offerings.

Marchantia, genus of liverworts (creeping ribbonlike plants) in the order Marchantiales, commonly found on moist clay or silty soils, especially on recently burned land throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

The New Yorker, April 21, 1973 P. 35 Beetle dozing in the moist clay, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By Jia Tolentino By Masha Gessen.

The New Yorker, April 21, 1973 P. 35 Beetle dozing in the moist clay, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Ceridwen Dovey By Larissa MacFarquhar By Jia Tolentino.

Yeah? 1.22pm GMT The fact-filled and incredibly excellent tea report So that was tea, and slow stuff all round, after a generally dour contest on a pitch giving no assistance to anyone except enthusiasts of slightly moist clay.

When the Dinaledi Chamber was first entered, the sediments along the cave floor (i.e., Unit 3) consisted largely of loosely packed, semi-moist, clay-rich clumps of varying sizes in which bone material was distributed.

At Racetrack Playa, rocks as large as 700 pounds (320 kg) leave trails as they mysteriously slide across a flat area; they are probably blown by wind when precipitation creates a moist, slippery clay surface.

In refashioning the moist, pliable clay of reality into the fired ceramic of a published novel, I could distort whatever I wished, leave out anything that didn't suit my purposes, and invent scenes that never happened, which to my subjects must have been infuriating.

Extensive laboratory tests were conducted using dry and moist Capay clay and Yolo loam soils.

In a KC-135 experiment, the sensor was implanted in a moist granular clay media and exposed to microgravity during parabolic flight.