clayey - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • silt: A post appeared to have been deliberately removed and the void filled with a bone-rich clayey silt.
  • loam: The red clayey loam, mixed up with great yellow flint stones.
  • soil: Bad roads through a hilly terrain on a clayey soil gave our taxi driver a hard time.
  • sand: Soils are a thin humus layer over clayey sands with several lateritic flushes.
  • subsoil: The soil slightly varies, but in general it is found to be a dark loamy mold, with a stiff clayey subsoil.
  • layer: Finally, in area B/5 Sarah, Angela and George have removed the clayey silt layer that seems to overly possibly sterile orange clay.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: Below this, the matrix became slightly clayey with more stones.

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