How to Use topsoil in a Sentence

topsoil

noun

• When the Iowa winds blow, the topsoil on their fields stays put.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2022
• The topsoil is shallow, and thus too are the root structures of the trees.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
• The scouts spread mulch and topsoil and did a general spruce-up in the park.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020
• There is three times more carbon stored in the topsoil of the earth than all the trees and plants combined.
  — CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
• Josef showed me how to rebuild the topsoil, how to plant, how to construct a canopy.
  — Lawrence Osborne, Town & Country, 14 Apr. 2017
• There, the topsoil is gone completely in some spots, washed down to the white rock and stained with oil.
  — National Geographic, 3 Jan. 2020
• The Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
• In some yards, much of the original topsoil is gone and needs to be replaced.
  — Debbie Carlson, ajc, 8 June 2018
• Have a wheelbarrow of topsoil nearby to fill in the voids.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram.com, 12 June 2017
• Heavy machinery will scrape off the first few feet of topsoil to begin the process.
  — Carma Hassan, CNN, 4 June 2021
• Once the plants are well potted, add a layer of sand above the new topsoil layer.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2021
• To plant grass seed on the stump site, remove the upper mulch/soil mix and replace it with topsoil.
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
• That leaves the topsoil and your need for a remedy for erosion.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Sam Ackroyd had worked with Luke to make three fresh beds and fill them with topsoil and compost.
  — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Have the soil tested for nematodes, and if present, remove an inch or two of the topsoil with the old sod.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Then haul a layer of topsoil or compost to spread about an inch or two thick on top.
  — oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
• Because of that, farmers here say some of the topsoil has been destroyed.
  — Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2022
• Left behind are patches of desert-like land — dry, sandy, stripped of topsoil and ringed by trunks of dead trees.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The process leaves a permanent and raw scar, devoid of topsoil.
  — Madeline Ostrander, The Atlantic, 23 July 2022
• The grinding process leaves a large mound of chips mixed with soil that will need to be removed and replaced with topsoil.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• But the fact is that this topsoil can actually bring in fresh sources of weeds.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 10 May 2018
• The Dust Bowl refers to the combination of drought and strong winds that blew away dry, overfarmed topsoil in the southern plains in the 1930s.
  — Graison Dangor, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Nature takes 500 years or more to create an inch of fresh topsoil.
  — Chloe Sorvino, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• Think of your scalp like topsoil and your hair like the blooming flowers growing on top.
  — Anneke Knot, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• The stump-grinding process will leave a mound of chips mixed with soil that will need to be removed and replaced with topsoil.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• Add plants to the base layers, packing a layer of topsoil on top to secure them in place.
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2021
• Then sow your bahia seed and rake it in no more than a half-inch deep or cover lightly with topsoil.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Construct enclosures of wood or stone for each bed, then truck in enough topsoil to fill each bed to the depth of a foot or more.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• The heat may already have begun to thaw 40 percent of the park's permafrost, the layer of earth just under the topsoil that normally remains frozen year-round.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
• At stake is about $50 billion in economic impacts, and consolidation into larger, fewer farms, even as a changing climate has brought an uptick in severe weather events in Kentucky, threatening to wash away topsoil and wipe out crop yields.
  — Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024