soil

01. You need to turn the [soil] at the base of the plant once in a while to keep it from getting too hard-packed.

02. The old man had trouble controlling himself, and often [soiled] his pants.

03. The [soil] at the mouth of a river is usually very rich and fertile.

04. My ancestors arrived on American [soil] about 100 years ago.

05. My wife doesn't work in the garden because she doesn't like to [soil] her hands.

06. You can improve the quality of the [soil] by adding compost to it.

07. The [soil] here is full of rocks and clay and almost nothing will grow.

08. Robert Ingersoll once said that ignorance is the [soil] in which belief in miracles grows.

09. [Soils] require centuries, or even millennia, to form.

10. In 1970, a Soviet space probe landed on the moon, and collected samples of lunar [soil].

11. You should change some of the [soil] in your houseplants if you want them to grow better.

12. In 1808, British troops landed on Portuguese [soil] to push back the French forces under Napoleon.

13. The reddish-brown [soils] in the highland areas of Tanzania are the most fertile in the country.

14. The [soils] of the African nation of Mali are generally poor; shallow and hard or sandy and infertile.

15. She [soiled] her new dress when she spilt red wine on it.

16. One gram of [soil] may contain hundreds of millions of living things.