(a.) Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The find is a few miles from Bredon hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of an iron age hill fort.
(2) Uranium tailings piles are generally rehabilitated by covering them with a number of layers of earthen materials.
(3) They were beaten before being shot dead, their bodies buried in an earthen dam, and their car set on fire.
(4) The rate of 222Rn gas transport through earthen materials controls 222Rn releases to the atmosphere and to indoor environments.
(5) Ironically, another UN body – Unesco – listed earthen architecture as a world treasure a decade ago.
(6) Samples of groundwater and soil were collected from test pits placed 25 m intervals on five axes extending from an earthen waste disposal pit for produced water near the San Juan River of northwest New Mexico.
(7) Djinguereber mosque, in common with most buildings in city-centre Timbuktu, is constructed in mud brick; more elegantly known as “earthen architecture”.
(8) Monumental structures were built in the form of terraced platforms, ranging from the earthen mounds of Cahokia in the Mississippi Valley near St Louis to the stone-faced Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan and the monumental adobe structures on the Peruvian coast, such as the Pyramid of the Sun in the Moche Valley.
(9) When the men were released that night, Klansmen – organised by Edgar Ray Killen – followed them, murdered them and buried them in a nearby earthen dam.
(10) A system of johads , earthen dams that hold water and allow it to percolate down replenishing the aquifer, had once allowed the region to stay green despite minimal rainfall.
(11) Regarding the analysis of correlations between the concentrations and construction materials, radon concentrations were generally high in Japanese houses with earthen walls and in concrete structures.
(12) albopictus were commonly found in earthen ware jars, tin cans, ant traps, rubber tires, bowls, and drums; ant traps were the most common indoor habitat and tin cans were most common outdoors.The majority of Ae.
(13) Results obtained from pilot studies and the operation of a plant scale treatment facility located at the Williamson Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant at Austin, Texas, demonstrate that culture of the water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes in shallow earthen basins is effective in the removal of algae, fecal coliform bacteria dn deleterious impurities from wastewater stabilization pond effluent.
(14) It is not just nature that he replicates: there are abstract artworks made of clay, geometrical models, a statue of a child hugging a donkey, and what seems to be the face of Jesus Christ emerging from a chaotic, earthen swirl.
(15) The jury, three of whom were black, convicted Killen on Tuesday on three counts of felony manslaughter, finding that he organised a posse to kidnap, beat and shoot Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney and bulldoze their bodies under an earthen dam.
(16) Whole grain flour of one variety (HC-4) of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum L. Leeke) after giving different treatments (defatting, butylated hydroxyanisole, ascorbic acid and thermal) was stored in earthen pots at prevailing room temperature (28-34 degrees C) and relative humidity (70-80%) for 30 days.
(17) Milne said that Trump’s threat to build a wall along the US-Mexico border had special resonance in Aberdeenshire; Trump’s staff surrounded his home with a six-metre high earthen wall and then rows of trees, blocking his house from being seen from the course.
(18) Yesterday, fewer than 100 metres from the earthen pile, a khaki traffic jam of British Warrior armoured cars sweated oil in the still mid-afternoon heat.
(19) Studies on the changes occurring in the microflora at the time of 45-day ripening and 4-month storage of cheese produced in pitchers (earthen jugs) were performed.
(20) In recent decades the pushing back of the dates for the various phases of Stonehenge's construction, together with extensive new evidence from digs at the nearby massive earthen henge at Durrington Walls, have contributed to a different sort of a narrative; and there's general archaeological consensus that this entire part of Wiltshire, from the huge earthworks at Avebury and Silbury Hill, stretching down the Avon to Woodhenge and Durrington Walls, and taking in the strange features known as the cursus and the Stonehenge Avenue (parallel earthwork ridges running for several kilometres) as well as scores of barrows (or burial mounds) constituted an integrated "sacred landscape".
Earthling
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1997 he arranged an ambitious live ‘cybercast’ of his Earthling concert in Boston – although the limits of internet access at the time meant that capacity was quickly reached, and most viewers received only stuttering images and error messages.
(2) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
(3) 11.04am BST So Costa Rica has certainly endeared itself to the its fellow Earthlings throughout this World Cup, speaking its people's reputation as a happy, dignified and talented bunch.
(4) Outside (1995) found him reunited with Eno and was another commercial success, despite its laborious concept and clumsy adoption of grungy, industrial sounds, while Earthling (1997) borrowed elements of the drum’n’bass style practised by such UK artists as Goldie and Asian Dub Foundation.
(5) We're earthlings – Europeans, in fact – and the preservation of our language is something we care deeply about.
(6) The other Pythons are being lined up to voice the roles of a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything".
(7) But while astronomers believe that it "probably" also possesses water and land, earthlings secretly harbouring hopes that such a planet could potentially host new colonies from our own increasingly overpopulated home may be in for a disappointment.
(8) The experience of being in space is magnificent," he says, "but only in the context of being an Earthling and knowing that you’re coming back to Earth."
(9) Not surprisingly, when the moonwalkers returned to earth, many earthlings asked this very same question.
(10) The absolute necessity of the bedroom tax, for example, has never been explained to any earthling using ordinary words.
(11) The artist also promised further exclusive tracks and webcasts, including footage from the Earthling tour.
(12) It's a little bit Minecraft, in the way you craft buildings from raw materials, with elements of city-building and resource management games added on as you build a space-base, complete Earthling-rescuing missions and play and chat with friends online.