Sentence examples for slick clay from inspiring English sources
After long exposure to the elements, some of that material had degraded into slick clay, which acted as a lubricant for the landslide once it began.
This country, already so desperate even before the April 25 earthquake and now facing destruction from a second major temblor, will literally be stuck as its roads become slick clay mud.
Berdych might play his most persuasive tennis on fast surfaces: See his run to the final on the slick, blue clay in Madrid this year.
The clay soil became slick.
GAME TIME After batting practice, we remove all the netting, work on the mounds, which means repacking and leveling the clay, put the bases out, make sure the baselines are pliable but not slick.
If there is good news, it is that clay absorbs moisture more quickly than hardcourts or grass and does not become as slick, meaning play can continue longer, and resume more quickly, even when rain does fall.
Rather slick engineering, that.
