SOIL in a Sentence

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199 example sentences for SOIL, such as:

1. Weeds grow thickly in rich soil.
2. First, scoop a hole in the soil.
3. Plants grow well in fertile soil.
4. Worms burrow down through the soil.
5. He is loosening the soil in his garden.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
soil
 n.  the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus
 v.  insult, as with disgrace
Classic Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he received, he never had any.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
2  As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the soil from every pebble, Jean Valjean sat down behind a bush upon a large ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3  It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
4  I will till the soil; it makes no difference to me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP
5  Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action would have begun at six o'clock in the morning.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
6  In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come out and dry the soil.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
7  They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8  On soil where an imprint of the track may be left, this manoeuvre possesses, among other advantages, that of deceiving the huntsmen and the dogs, by throwing them on the wrong scent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
9  The occupant of the in pace had this wet soil for his bed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
10  Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
11  The social soil is everywhere undermined, sometimes for good, sometimes for evil.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
12  Thinkers meditated, while the soil, that is to say, the people, traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with indescribably vague epileptic shocks.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
13  The soil had given away, the pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; they found nothing solid; a man disappeared suddenly; they had great difficulty in getting him out again.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
14  All sorts of obstacles hindered this operation, some peculiar to the soil, others inherent in the very prejudices of the laborious population of Paris.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
15  Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
Example Sentence: (75 in 6 pages)
16  Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
17  As far as we could determine, there is only one aboriginal culture left that does any dyeing at all with soil.
18  If the soil is allowed to dry out the tree could die.
19  Worms burrow down through the soil.
20  The government is trying to encourage a return to the soil.
21  Examine all those planted the previous autumn and winter to see that the soil has not been loosened by frost.
22  The peasants ploughed the weeds in the field back to enrich the soil.
23  He is loosening the soil in his garden.
24  A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
25  Weeds grow thickly in rich soil.
26  The nutrient in the soil acts as a stimulus to growth/to make the plants grow.
27  Plants grow well in fertile soil.
28  The soil is adaptable to the growth of peanuts.
29  The soil is baked dry by the fierce heat of the sun.
30  First, scoop a hole in the soil.