Sentence examples for smooth clay from inspiring English sources

Air is provided with pumps, and mechanical winches drag trains of jerry cans over the smooth clay surface of the tunnel floor and lift items up the 12-metre shaft to the surface.

A world war later, the child Roy Fisher sees the bombed garden where his aunt, his two cousins and their neighbour died as "a pod filled with clay", with the centre of the crater a "smooth clay saucer".

For years, the doughnuts Stan Berman sold out of his eponymous Westwood shop were packaged in a neat white box with a smooth clay coating.

Once you can handle the dough knead it into a smooth clay consistency.

The air bubbles will look like little craters in the smooth clay.

It was just the kind of "tectonic" shift that the Fugro report had warned of — hardly the smooth clays and sandstones that KBR had suggested the drillers would find.

The inner layer of the mud cake which adjoins by the screen is fine and smooth with clay.

After many trials, Utzon settled on a tile made of the smooth local clay mixed with grainy, crushed matter to add texture.

Tantalizingly, several of the Croatian pieces feature the imprint of a finger, perhaps left there when the artist tried to smooth wet clay.

Smooth the clay into place.

Smooth the clay using your fingers, or a spoon, to avoid cracks.