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Example sentences for "underlaid"

Lexicographically close words:
underground; undergrowth; underhand; underhanded; underived; underlain; underland; underlay; underlaying; underlet
  1. This means, therefore, that it will grow well in probably all kinds of clay soils and also in loam soils underlaid with clay.

  2. Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loams underlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.

  3. Next in adaptation are what may be termed loam soils, also underlaid with clay.

  4. It has greater power than the common red variety to grow in stiff clays, in sandy soils underlaid with clay, and in areas where moisture is insufficient near the surface soil.

  5. Good crops will not be obtained on soils underlaid with hardpan which comes up near the surface, whatsoever the nature of the top soil may be, since the roots cannot penetrate these.

  6. When they are short, as they must needs be in very stiff subsoils and on thin land underlaid with hard soil, the branches become about as large as the tap roots.

  7. Where the humus soils of the prairies are deep and are underlaid with clay, white clover will grow much better in the subsoil, if laid bare, than in the surface soil.

  8. This means that it will usually grow with much luxuriance in all areas which produce hardwood timber, and are usually covered with a clay or muddy loam soil underlaid with clay.

  9. Next to these the best crops are grown where congenial soils are underlaid with ground water, not too near nor too distant from the surface.

  10. It was formerly thought by many that alfalfa would only grow vigorously on soils and subsoils sandy in character, and underlaid at some distance from the surface with water.

  11. On the ordinary black soils of the prairie, alfalfa will usually grow reasonably well if underlaid with clay not too distant nor too tenacious.

  12. But when these have in them some clay, and especially when they are underlaid with clay not distant from the surface, they will grow good crops of clover, especially of the alsike variety.

  13. Alfalfa flourishes best on those mountain valley soils when irrigated, or when these are so underlaid with water as to furnish the plants with moisture.

  14. The tract drained by this system, though very swampy, before being drained, is now dry enough to walk upon, almost immediately after a storm, except when underlaid by a stratum of frozen ground.

  15. This stratum is underlaid by an impervious stratum, and, consequently, the water will flow continuously through the former in the direction of the dip, as shown by the arrow and the dotted lines.

  16. When underlaid by an impervious stratum, it constitutes a reservoir of water from which a supply may be drawn by means of a sinking or a bore-hole.

  17. That which gives to the production vitality is its unquestioned fidelity to a phase of life prevailing in those early days, while it is underlaid by principles which revealed actual conditions.

  18. The Seattle Coal and Iron Company own this property, which consists of 1,300 acres underlaid by seven coal seams, five of which will be mined ultimately, three in the beginning.

  19. These ores are underlaid by syenite and quartzite, and overlaid by limestone.

  20. Too frequently are great abilities coupled with a mean spirit, and transcendent genius underlaid with a low, grovelling nature; but these may be known by the peculiar form or development of the cranium.

  21. Yes; much of the hardpan in your district is thin enough and underlaid by permeable strata so that drainage is readily secured by breaking up the hardpan.

  22. A deepening of the available soil is usually accomplished by dynamiting, especially so if the hardpan is underlaid by permanent strata.

  23. I find this entire district underlaid with hardpan at various depths, from 1 to 6 feet down, and of various thicknesses.

  24. I have land which is underlaid with hardpan two or three feet deep and this in turn is underlaid with sand or sandpan.

  25. Starting at The Pas and proceeding towards Churchill, the witness first passed through about one hundred and forty miles of country underlaid by the flat limestone of northern Manitoba.

  26. It is pointed out that in some regions, at least, the loess is underlaid by a layer of erratics, which are believed to be the residue of the denuded boulder-clay.

  27. The section shows 8 feet of peat resting on freshwater clay, 2 feet thick, which is underlaid by some 10 feet of "coral sand," with bryozoa.

  28. The contemporaneity of the two boulder-clays has been taken for granted simply because they are each underlaid by a lower boulder-clay.

  29. The erratic deposits are unfossiliferous, and are underlaid and overlaid by fossiliferous strata, in none of which are any erratics to be found.

  30. It determines a new kind of evolution--evolution on a new and higher plane though, indeed, underlaid and conditioned by the laws of organic evolution.

  31. Their traditions concerning him are embellished with extravagant fictions; yet we cannot reasonably deny that they are underlaid by a basis of truth.

  32. Throughout the whole book these commendatory notices are underlaid by the idea that Daniel's wisdom is not his own, but is given him by God, and for purposes connected with the welfare of the covenant people.

  33. That such a belief was a necessary foundation for the peculiar doctrines of Christianity, all of which are underlaid by that of trinity in unity, is self-evident.

  34. For once Frank detected that which underlaid her words.

  35. This lower measure is underlaid by a bed of dark gray shale, containing calcareous seams and nodules, called septaria.

  36. This park contains many ponds and miry places, and is said to be underlaid everywhere with bog iron-ore.

  37. It is a sandy loam with much fine gravel and is underlaid at a depth of three feet with sand and shale fragments.

  38. It is brown in color with much coarse fragmentary shale on the surface and underlaid with a considerable body of heavy clay.

  39. Here the gypsum, ruddy and mauve, white and black, was underlaid by granite in rounded masses; and the Secondary formation is succeeded by the usual red and green traps.

  40. At a re-entering angle of the junction, a shallow pit was sunk; the sand became moist and red, and presently it was underlaid by a rubble of porphyritic trap.

  41. It is not unusual to find a sandy topsoil underlaid with a dense, cement-like, clayey sand subsoil extending down several feet.

  42. Sown densely in October, it forms a thick carpet of frilly spring greens underlaid with countless massive taproots that decompose very rapidly if the plants are tilled in in April before flower stalks begin to appear.

  43. The High plateaus are underlaid by nearly horizontal rocks.

  44. The largest and most interesting of the ring-like valleys is underlaid by red sandstone, and is remarkable for its flaming colour as well as for its exceptional form.

  45. A vast area in the eastern portion of Canada, to the north of the valley of the St. Lawrence, including Labrador, is underlaid by very ancient crystalline rocks of the same general character as those forming the Adirondacks.

  46. This important and highly fruitful valley is underlaid to a great extent by thick bedded limestones and soft shales, and owes its existence to erosion and largely to the removal of limestone in solution.

  47. The same principles underlaid both; the same truths were manifest of both.

  48. These she could not move, but she thrust between them one of the roof-poles which had underlaid the dirt and moss.

  49. It had manifested itself where a stratum of clean white sand, underlaid with clay, outcropped at the foot of a high bank.

  50. One of these is still growing on my farm, in thin, clay soil underlaid with limestone, and it bears nuts annually.

  51. Shallow surface soil, underlaid with heavy clay, will usually slow down the growth of a young tree so that it remains dwarfed for many years.

  52. The soil was heavy blue clay underlaid with limestone within two feet of the top of the ground.

  53. A large part of this land has soil two or three feet deep underlaid with gravel.

  54. The soil is chiefly light, sandy loam, underlaid with clay.

  55. It is believed that this part of the territory is at a certain depth underlaid by an abundance of fresh water, which would be perfectly accessible by means of artesian wells.

  56. The same objections hold against soils underlaid with a hard, impervious layer.

  57. The ideal soil for a garden is a mellow, sandy loam, underlaid with a subsoil that is not too open or porous.

  58. If the ground of the acre is underlaid with a porous subsoil, there is usually an adequate natural drainage.

  59. Thou shouldst have lived to feel below Thy feet Disunion's fierce upthrow; The late-sprung mine that underlaid Thy sad concessions vainly made.

  60. On this account, soils that are too compact, especially if they be underlaid by stiff clay subsoils, are not so well adapted to orcharding as those that are more porous.

  61. Porous soils are composed of materials that always allow of the escape of superabundant moisture; they are generally underlaid by beds of diluvial gravels, or by rocks of a porous character.


  62. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underlaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.