How to Use loam in a Sentence

loam

noun

• The ground is only the ground, & then Green shoots through the rich brown loam.
  — Reginald Dwayne Betts, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2021
• Mixing all of the compost with the sandy loam may not be the best idea.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• But the best preserve the essence of the text and tease new meanings from its rich loam.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
• Cracks and holes in the walls of her brick house are smeared with loam to keep mosquitoes out.
  — Jop De Vrieze, Science | AAAS, 26 Nov. 2019
• Nicky Wire’s bass-lines wriggle in the loam at the bottom of the mix, like Jah Wobble’s.
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• The first sniff produces scents of fresh-baked bread, loam, chalk, rhubarb pie and apples.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
• Small green shoots are emerging from the lush loam of Bay Area farms, and fruit trees are adorned with frothy petals.
  — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2017
• Brazile swings his arm, once, twice, three times, Deputy’s hoofs pounding the sandy loam, the loop circling his head.
  — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2017
• When the Lee family moved in last winter, the loam was already down.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2019
• Caucasian mountain spinach will require good drainage, and thrives in a bed of deep loam and manure.
  — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 24 Jan. 2018
• Beneath the loam sat 3½ feet of hard red clay, and below that was the remnant of a petrified forest.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• Soils here are mostly calcareous with varying amounts of loam, clay and sand mixed in.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Aim to provide for your tomatoes a sandy loam soil that does not remain soggy.
  — Walter Reeves, ajc, 27 June 2018
• Deeply colored, this one is perfumed but earthy with dry loam on the nose under cedar, mint and blackberry.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 24 May 2021
• Because of our wet weather, lavender needs good drainage to thrive, so when planting, mound and amend the soil with gritty or sandy loam.
  — The Pecks, OregonLive.com, 2 July 2017
• Well-drained, sandy soils need more water volume, which should be applied more frequently than for a loam or clay soil.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• But the earth throughout Napa Valley is anything but uniform: There are shale and sandstone, clay and loam, deep soils and shallow ones.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2016
• As in Bordeaux, the soil here is sandy/silty loam and temperatures can get up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
  — Emily Schultz, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2019
• One of the earliest images is of a tractor, plowing through dark loam and unearthing an artillery shell, presumably from the killing fields of the First World War.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 5 July 2010
• The wine opens with a swirl of florals, cloves, forest floor, mint, loam, black tea and savory minerality.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2021
• Denise and John Jamerson, with whom the Shannons partnered to bring the loam conference to Gary, said the mission goes deeper for them than just matching resources.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• The herbs thrive like grapes in the fertile loam and cooler temperatures of the Coombsville appellation.
  — Sheryl Jean, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The tidal force means the landscape’s always shifting, so there is value here in retracing steps, looking for anything human against the loam.
  — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
• Lovely violets open, with toasted spice, resinous botanicals, pine and loam layered on the nose.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2022
• Inevitably, these expenses will rise further still, as wells sink deeper and deeper into the earth, biting past loam and clay and into rock.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 2 May 2017
• One picture, divided between a brick-red top and a loam-brown bottom, is in the formal tradition of color field painting.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• Soils consist mostly of various mixes of loam and gravel.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
• With small clusters and small berries, the wine is concentrated, amazingly fresh and aromatically complicated in the best way, with whiffs of cardamom and damp loam.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2021
• Those in the local industry point to the terroir, especially a prized sandy loam soil found in the state’s southern area, as being optimal for producing quality wine, both sparkling and still.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2020
• Dark loam, bacon fat, warm spice, and iron minerality swirl with blueberry and a little tobacco smoke.
  — Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 7 June 2021

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