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  • adjective Resembling clay.

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Examples

  • Thick claylike sludge oozed gray-brown from the wound.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Instead, I lowered myself till I lay flat on my stomach and peered aggressively into the rotted tile; I poked at one corner and found it pliable, claylike.

    Excerpt: Asta in the Wings by Jan Elizabeth Watson 2009

  • Thick claylike sludge oozed gray-brown from the wound.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • I thought Grady had just peed, but when my hands started working through a claylike substance, I realized Grady had delivered me a squishy brown present.

    Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010

  • I thought Grady had just peed, but when my hands started working through a claylike substance, I realized Grady had delivered me a squishy brown present.

    Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010

  • Next, a layer of claylike substance that Alejos refers to as tierra blanca (white earth) or pasta blanca (white paste) is applied.

    A Family Tradition: The Pineapple Pottery Of Hilario Alejos Madrigal 2007

  • Next, a layer of claylike substance that Alejos refers to as tierra blanca (white earth) or pasta blanca (white paste) is applied.

    A Family Tradition: The Pineapple Pottery Of Hilario Alejos Madrigal 2007

  • "Since moles have trouble burrowing through dense soil, arranging stones or dense claylike soil around a garden to a depth of 2 feet can also help," says Hansen.

    Pest Patrol: How to control moles in your yard 2008

  • For some tribes, pipestone -- a reddish, claylike stone from which ceremonial pipes were carved -- is sacred; when they objected to its use for the floor of a performance space, the architects found a substitute.

    RETURN OF THE NATIVE 2008

  • Other schemes: zapping the Martian permafrost with microwaves to extract water, mixing the water with Mars's claylike red dust to make bricks, turning the calcium and sulfur in the soil into gypsum.

    The Stars Of Mars 2008

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