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

Using a rich, bold palette, he depicted Islamic astronomers, philosophers, and desert wanderers with the same kinetic lines that defined his Indian art, but in warmer, earthen ochres reflecting the Gulf's landscape.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025

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

Anyone who traveled up the Mississippi in 1100 a.d. would have seen it looming in the distance: a four-level earthen mound bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann