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

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

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024

It’s a sandy loam mixed with lightweight volcanic aggregate to provide the volume and moisture needed to support plant life while reducing the weight on the structure and allowing for easy drainage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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

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

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 Albert H. Benson

Sandy loams are, therefore, our best pineapple soils, though it does well on free loams of basaltic or alluvial origin.

From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson

The soils thus vary from sandy loams, usually on the higher ground, to stiff clays along the limestone hollows.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

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 Hiram Hoyt Richmond

Proceeding north the fruit soils are either sandy loams or loams of a brownish colour of volcanic origin.

From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson