earthen

Example Sentences

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He kept saying that our soy sauce couldn’t be made without this storehouse, its earthen walls, earthen floors and wooden vats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Or it could simply indicate that collectors feel safer splurging on a household-name artist like Rembrandt, a Renaissance man famed for his pensive, realistic self-portraits in earthen hues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

What survives of this ancient city today includes two long rows of rectangular earthen mounds, each about a meter high.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2025

An extensive earthen wall is being built around the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher and is intended to trap people inside, according to research from Yale University.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

North of Seattle the swollen Skagit River sliced though earthen dikes near its mouth and sent tidal salt water spilling across twenty thousand acres of the richest farmland in the state.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown