Sample Sentences for
loam
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    We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.  (source)
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    From the loam of Jutta's memory rises a sentence: What I want to write about today is the sea.†  (source)
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    Auk XXIII was buried there, up to its fins in soft, wet loam.†  (source)
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    This has included scrubbing down my body with a gritty loam that has removed not only dirt but at least three layers of skin, turning my nails into uniform shapes, and primarily, ridding my body of hair.†  (source)
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    I scoop up a handful and breathe in the loamy smell.†  (source)
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    He remembered yet the East India Tea House at the Fair, the sandalwood, the turbans, and the robes, the cool interior and the smell of India tea; and he had felt now the nostalgic thrill of dew-wet mornings in Spring, the cherry scent, the cool clarion earth, the wet loaminess of the garden, the pungent breakfast smells and the floating snow of blossoms.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.†  (source)
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    And even though it was still cool, there was an expectancy that Esperanza could smell, a rich loamy odor that promised spring.†  (source)
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    One of his fondest memories of her was the long afternoons she had spent under the front porch when she was about two, digging in the loam, ignoring spiders and googlepeds, rushing into the house to show off every plastic plate and tarnished pfennig she had excavated, demanding to know where it had come from, what were the people like who had left it there?†  (source)
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    Arid each night, creeping a little closer to the tent, inching his way over the woodland blanket of decaying leaves and moist loamy soil until his shadow rose in the narrow opening of the tent and fell over her, and the tent was filled with her smell, and there would be the sleeping girl clutching the teddy bear and the hunter holding his gun, one dreaming of the life that was taken from her, the other thinking of the life he'd take.†  (source)
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    Then she realized a tidal wave of dark loam was rolling across the hills, turning the skin of the earth inside out, leaving nothing behind.†  (source)
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    It was like one of those fast-motion videos of plants blooming, except she seemed to be reeling the flowers up from their loamy bed by invisible strings.†  (source)
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    The threads push through the cell wall and grow out of the cell, like grass rising from seeded loam.†  (source)
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