How to Use earthen in a Sentence

earthen

adjective

• The earthen dam was built in the 1970s near the San Bernardino Mountains.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2019
• The earthen dam, which holds 3.5 million acre-feet of water, is the tallest in the United States.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2017
• Artwork set into the wall hints at the earthen bricks that support the house.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
• Add raanu, mash the mixture, and keep it in an earthen vessel.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 16 June 2019
• The ponds in question hold a slurry of water and coal ash in an earthen pit.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Each in turn saw the jackdaws dead on the earthen floor: seven, as there were seven of them. . .
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 11 May 2018
• Within hours, as pressure built, the earthen banks of the canal had been overwhelmed.
  — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 29 July 2019
• By the 21st century, the only above-ground traces of the palace were earthen terraces and fish ponds.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• What caused a stream of gooey, earthen debris to ooze through an empty field?
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2017
• There will also be a produce stand and an earthen oven with baked goods.
  — Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2018
• Just upstream of the capital is one of the longest earthen dams in the world, the 11-mile left bank dam of Kyiv Reservoir.
  — Thomas Popik, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2023
• They are cooked over coals for several days in earthen pits filled with palm leaves and dirt.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2020
• My mother, though, used a clay pot over an earthen fire to cook kiribath.
  — Zinara Rathnayake, Bon Appétit, 10 Apr. 2021
• As for the mezcal process, it's cooked in an earthen or stone-lined underground pit for a few days.
  — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
• Karuk elder Leaf Hillman and his wife, Lisa, were on hand to see the first shovelful of dirt scraped from the top of the earthen dam.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 2 May 2024
• On land, an earthen mound echoes the curve of the shoreline and an open pavilion offers shelter.
  — Kirsten Swenson, ARTnews.com, 9 Sep. 2024
• The large stones of the inner chamber remain, but were once covered by a long earthen mound.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
• Staff removed a portion of seawall and built an earthen ramp to the water’s edge.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• Karuk elder Leaf Hillman and his wife, Lisa, were on hand this month to see the first shovelful of dirt scraped from the top of the earthen dam.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• The money raised would pay for an earthen dike to be constructed across the northern portion of the Salton Sea.
  — Lauren Steele, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2014
• From below the earthen dam at Kelly Lake, ride ahead a short distance to the junction with Coit Road and bear right.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
• The most efficient way to get tar from birch bark is to heat the roll of bark in a clay vessel buried inside an earthen mound.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Oct. 2019
• The trader, Hitesh Kumar, was alerted by the cries of the girl as the workers digging a grave for his daughter smashed the earthen pot.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2019
• Buried beneath the floor was an earthen jar containing the skeletons of a man and woman.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
• The three young men were shot to death that night and buried under an earthen dam on a farm near Philadelphia, Miss.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 12 Jan. 2018
• During the early evening of March 25, an earthen levee gave way.
  — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2016
• The earthen canals of the acequias, for instance, can hold water for long periods of time.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2021
• When Poonachi arrives in their lives, given as a gift by a stranger, night is falling, and the old woman needs an earthen lamp to look at the kid.
  — Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2019
• Kids played on the banks of the Greater Zab River where earthen bunkers once shielded Iraqi tanks during the 2003 invasion.
  — Tim Neville, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Nearby, construction vehicles that had been working for weeks to build large earthen dams and berms in an attempt to divert the lava’s flow had to pull back.
  — Loÿc Vanderkluysen, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024