loam
Example Sentences
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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
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
How much water to keep the loam moist?
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
