Synonyms
Examples for "soil"
Examples for "soil"
1
Our police investigation into this serious crime on Malaysian soil will continue.
2
Cadmium presence in soil is considered a significant threat to human health.
3
Ten years of water seepage has a way of obliterating soil differences.
4
She fully expects another terror attack on American soil in the future.
5
They play an indispensable part in the vital cycle of the soil.
1
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
2
He stammered; his mouth wobbled; he covered it with a dirty hand.
3
I looked at the letter; it was very dirty, and I said:
4
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
5
Some of them are dirty in their persons and in their habits.
1
Ahead of the BBC Proms, we're asking if grime has gone global.
2
There certainly appears to be a renewed interest in grime in 2014.
3
The shop grime lingers on his hands and in his broken nails.
4
In summary: It's been a big year for this Leeds-based grime-punk five-piece.
5
And it means that stains and grime breakdown, when exposed to light.
1
I would rather bring up a colly than a man.
2
Even a Times subscriber can get colly-wobbles & the lady phoned the Times asking what had gone wrong.
3
PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.
4
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades.
5
Mr. W. is always training two or three collies to be Lassie.
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So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
2
There they came upon a pitiful group of humanity, bemired.
3
Steed and rider were bemired up to the eyes.
4
He is morally bemired, bespattered, and trod under foot, until he remains a lifeless carcase.
5
The bemired figure straightened to strike a parade-ground formal salute then grinned, his clay-caked cheeks cracking.
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In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke-begrimed building.
2
Fallion saw that his beard was not gray, merely begrimed with ash.
3
They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
4
His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
5
All defiling, smoke-begriming factories were to be banished to an innocuous distance.
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The curtains hung in rags about a window begrimed with soot and smoke.
7
The paint was old, startling in tint, and begrimed with smoke.
8
He stood gazing out upon the smoke-begrimed roofs and crooked chimneys.
9
How long have Caroline's window-panes been so appallingly begrimed by soot?
10
He played upon their emotions as he played upon the old soil-begrimed violin.
11
Just then the most coal-begrimed steamer would not have been despised.
12
Brown long-sleeved loose coats mingled with frayed sack-coats and begrimed smocks.
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His face was begrimed, and his voice hoarse with shouting commands for hours.
14
The soot of London begrimes every object in the room.
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The General, seeing a much-begrimed artillery-man, sponge-staff in hand, said:
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His musket was gone; he was hatless and his face and clothing were begrimed.