clod
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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
To be fair, there is more to Johnson's story than him simply being a clod when it came to dogs.
From Salon ● May 20, 2023
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
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were. as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018
In reply, a clod of wet earth flew out from under the tree, hitting Tristran on the side of the face.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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
When you play sports on grass fields, it’s inevitable that you’ll bring home clods of dirt stuck to your cleats: Call them shoevenirs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2018
A pale figure rises, little clods of earth from the milpita soundlessly crumbling off the small body.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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