earthen
Example Sentences
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On the riverbank, local resident Ahmad Saadoun pointed at a temporary earthen bridge that collapsed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
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
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
In the sandy wasteland around him were the graves of the city’s poor, each with an earthen jug or plate beside it holding the sun-dried remnants of a funerary offering.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
