Explore Loam through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like soil or dirt. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Loam meaning
- A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
- A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
Using Loam
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. | A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
- Useful related words include: soil, dirt.
- In the example corpus, loam often appears in combinations such as: loam soil, sandy loam, in loam.
Context around Loam
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Loam
- In this selection, "loam" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sandy, clay, sand, soil, soils and orangeburg stand out and add context to how "loam" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include measured in loam soils and a sandy loam soil with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "loam" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with loam
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Free well water access, rich loam garden soil, ideal climate. (10 words)
Steve Nicholson with a seed coated with Loam’s fungal treatment. (11 words)
An even higher ratio of about 18,000 was measured in loam soils. (13 words)
The available water for the clay loam might be 11.3% whereas for the sand loam it might be only 7.9% by weight.sfn The above are average values for the soil textures as the percentages of sand, silt and clay vary. (43 words)
But if you want to make it yourself, the RHS has a recipe of three parts sandy loam (available from larger gardening retailers), six parts sharp sand and one part peat-free multi-purpose compost. (35 words)
In a loam soil, solids constitute half the volume, gas one-quarter of the volume, and water one-quarter of the volume of which only half of which will be available to most plants. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
For example, a sandy loam soil with 20% gravel would be called gravelly sandy loam.
The available water for the clay loam might be 11.3% whereas for the sand loam it might be only 7.9% by weight.sfn The above are average values for the soil textures as the percentages of sand, silt and clay vary.
The subsoil may be yellowish red sandy clay loam (Orangeburg series), yellowish brown sandy clay loam (Norfolk series), or strong brown sandy clay (Marlboro series).
Loam soil has the right pH for all nutrients to be available for plants.
She's also a Carbon Projects Officer with Orange's clean energy company, Loam Bio.
Shovel topsoil from adjacent pathways onto each bed, adding screened loam if needed, then dig in 2-4 inches of compost and rake the soil level.
But if you want to make it yourself, the RHS has a recipe of three parts sandy loam (available from larger gardening retailers), six parts sharp sand and one part peat-free multi-purpose compost.
Plants growing in sand are watered more often and with less water each time than plants growing their roots in loam or clay soil.
Steve Nicholson with a seed coated with Loam’s fungal treatment.
The moderate climate is ideal for grape growing and features sandy loam soils with significant silt and clay content.
Dark in colour, loam contains a good balance of sand, clay and silt as well as plenty of humus (decomposed organic matter).
Free well water access, rich loam garden soil, ideal climate.
They lived on a farm in Loam Township until moving into Langdon in 1969.
They prefer moderately fine textured soils, including different kinds of loam, which will provide aeration at root level and have a high water-holding capacity.
An even higher ratio of about 18,000 was measured in loam soils.
Heavy volcanic loam soils, such as are found in New Zealand, require the use of four heavy draught horses to pull a double-furrow plough.
Houses were made of wood and loam, roofs were made of reed, citation although pyramids, temples and palaces were generally made of stone.
In a loam soil, solids constitute half the volume, gas one-quarter of the volume, and water one-quarter of the volume of which only half of which will be available to most plants.
Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position.
Soil analysis revealed about 1,900 times higher concentration of americium inside sandy soil particles than in the water present in the soil pores; an even higher ratio was measured in loam soils.
Common combinations with loam
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- loam soil 7×
- sandy loam 5×
- in loam 5×
- loam soils 4×
- clay loam 3×
- of loam 2×