clod

Whether it's a twig, a pebble or a clod of dirt, the randomness you get on a large scale is the same.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

Like most of Crumbl’s offerings, it was plump, doughy, intensely sweet and topped with a thick clod of frosting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Tau proteins play an important role in stabilizing neurons, but with age, they can start to clod together, forming tangles that are neurotoxic and can jam themselves into the entire intracellular space of a neuron.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022

The one of Rizzo, which was taken down on June 2, makes him look like a misshapen clod in an awkwardly buttoned jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

"A clod and a ruffian," declared the prince.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

As Teichman looked on, a few farmhands gingerly coaxed the cuttings out of the plastic sleeves, exposing young roots tangled in clods of soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Even the venal clods burst to complicated life.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022

Prowling in groups of three and four, the glossy birds yanked up clumps of grass and poked through the exposed clods.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2021

I look at the bushes, the clods of dirt hanging from their roots, and catch my breath as the word rose registers.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins