loam

Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Small asides like these root this character-driven mystery in a spiritual loam, a reflection of Inglesby’s narrative contemplation of day-to-day living as an exercise in faith.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025

Monday morning, workers will begin placing soil — sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate — on the wildlife overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

The result, if we want to get really geeky, is a mix of clay, pure sand and sandy loam.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

A smell of loam and another, pungent scent rises from among the leaves, a smell of old things, dense and heavy, forgotten.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The lands most sought after have been scrub, deep alluvial flats, and black and chocolate loams; and, until recently, it was on land of this kind that most of the wheat and barley was grown.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland

The pioneers of empire, for all time, Are gold-dust, from the placers of our homes— The surface croppings from a nation's prime, The mellow acre of the richest loams.

From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt

These soils, like the sandy alluvial loams, are easy to work, retain moisture well when kept in a state of perfect tilth, and respond readily to manuring.

From Fruits of Queensland by Benson, Albert H.

Good loams may be plowed at all times except when excessively wet.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

The soil is good, however, despite the fact that each dry season the fires destroy the grasses and the loams which are necessary for their nourishment.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)