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clay

noun as in workable earth material

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When you melt the clay, you destroy the statue but you don’t destroy the clay from which the statue is formed.

The Millennium engineers called for a clay covering to protect the embankment from erosion, as well as closely monitoring the project.

The water was yellowish, thick, full of clay, stinking of oil and sewage.

What’s new is breaking the clay down to a nanoparticle level and getting a liquid substance that can be easily sprayed onto land.

He explains that the dinos had been walking on a surface of clay.

But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.

Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.

From the 1820s to the 1850s, the upper house was dominated by Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Calhoun.

It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with Clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.

Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.

The British had fired 143 cannon shot into the fort before the arrival of Gen. Clay.

Only the laborers on the plantations smoke small clay pipes.

They use those with long, straight stems, and both their clay and porcelain pipes are of the finest form and finish.

Papier maché buttons came in with Henry Clay's patent in 1778.

It is the custom in the English forts to make every Indian who comes to trade, a present of a clay pipe filled with tobacco.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clay, such as: brick, the earth, mud, terra-cotta, adobe, and argil.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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