loam
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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
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
That’s because, contrary to the shibboleth, the good isn’t the enemy of the great—it’s the loam of the great.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2023
He dug his fingers through the loam on top, down deep to the cold earth below, and then pulled his hand back out.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Soil.—The soils of the lowlands are prevailing sandy loams, with a covering of rich mould.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
Very light sandy soils or very light loams with clayey subsoils are usually chosen for these light yellow tobaccos.
From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by W. A. Brennan
Such soil is better than light sand, or some of the poorer loams.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
The third class of soils are free sandy loams, either scrub or forest.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
Grapes here, as in other parts of the world, like moderately rich, free, loamy soils of good depth, free sandy loams, and free alluvial loams.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
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