Definition: 1. A very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired. 2. Water soaked soil; soft wet earth. 3. The dead body of a human being.
Use 'clay' in a sentence:
1. Both clay and sandstone are unstable rock formations.
2. The rooms had the clean earthy smell of wet clay.
3. Some pots are made of clay.
4. I'm going to dig in the clay.
5. What a love of a clay doll!
6. Their remains accumulated on the floor of the lake and were then covered by clay and silt.
7. Clay is used to make things like pots and tiles.
8. The most common things, from paper to clay to bamboo, are turned into objects of beauty.
9. The tiles are made of clay.
10. Most tennis is played on hard courts, but a substantial amount is played on clay.
11. Buttons and clay pottery?
12. She made clay models and squashed them flat again.
13. Chinese clay art is well known and popular all over the country.
14. They made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay.
15. He studied sculpture because he enjoyed working with clay.
16. They were covered with clay and candle-grease.
17. The clay court was slippery and he was unable to move freely.
18. Sometimes she carved wood and sometimes stone; sometimes she modelled clay.
19. They sat down, and Tom fastened his candle to the wall in front of them with some clay.
20. When there is the occasional rain, the clay ground becomes extremely slippery.
21. The figure had been moulded in clay.
22. Say--ain't this grease and clay, on your clothes?
23. These soils usually contain large amounts of clay and easily become water-saturated.
24. When the clay feels like putty, it is ready to use.
25. He models in clay.
26. Wet the clay a bit more before you start to mould it.
27. He enjoyed working with clay as a sculptural form.
28. The ground of this desert is made of clay.
29. When those idols are found to have feet of clay, the pain of disenchantment can be profound.
30. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
31. As the wheel turned, the potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
32. As the wheel turned, the potter shaped the clay.
33. Clay is a plastic substance.
34. Loam is a soil with roughly equal proportions of clay, sand and silt.
35. There she began to model in clay.
36. Between the white limestone and the greyish pink limestone is a thin bed of clay.
37. Grace broke off a large piece of the clay.
38. The basic ingredients are limestone and clay in the proportion 2:1.
39. A clay mould is used for casting bronze statues.
40. She fashioned a pot from the clay.
41. She fashioned the clay into a pot.
42. He would dampen the clay and begin to mould it into an entirely different shape.
43. The potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
