When you melt the clay, you destroy the statue but you don’t destroy the clay from which the statue is formed.
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The Millennium engineers called for a clay covering to protect the embankment from erosion, as well as closely monitoring the project.
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The water was yellowish, thick, full of clay, stinking of oil and sewage.
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What’s new is breaking the clay down to a nanoparticle level and getting a liquid substance that can be easily sprayed onto land.
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He explains that the dinos had been walking on a surface of clay.
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But, together, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun delayed the Civil War for 40 years.
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Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.
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It just changed into something quite dark and unattractive with Clay, and was a unique moment in my artistic career.
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Horace was athletic and clever, known, probably apocryphally, as the fastest cotton picker in Clay County.
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Further, as Grimes shouts “pull,” to indicate the release of the clay target, she closes one eye.
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I wandered on, heavy sniping hissing over my head or into the parapet, covering me with clay occasionally.
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Clay, to be precise, is a silicate of alumina, a term which is interesting when it is explained.
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In this Clay was conspicuous, and Webster and Calhoun were his sympathetic allies.
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It was in turning little things like these to account, that Mr. Clay, in the earlier period of his career, was so remarkable.
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It is therefore necessary to deal with clay in this chapter and follow with a consideration of metal in another chapter.
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British Dictionary definitions for clay (1 of 2)
clay
/ (kleɪ) /
noun
a very fine-grained material that consists of hydrated aluminium silicate, quartz, and organic fragments and occurs as sedimentary rocks, soils, and other deposits. It becomes plastic when moist but hardens on heating and is used in the manufacture of bricks, cement, ceramics, etcRelated adjective: figuline
earth or mud in general
poeticthe material of the human body
verb
(tr)to cover or mix with clay
Derived forms of clay
clayey, clayishorclaylike, adjective
Word Origin for clay
Old English clǣg; related to Old High German klīa, Norwegian kli, Latin glūs glue, Greek gloios sticky oil
British Dictionary definitions for clay (2 of 2)
Clay
/ (kleɪ) /
noun
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A stiff, sticky sedimentary material that is soft and pliable when wet and consists mainly of various silicates of aluminum. Clay particles are smaller than silt, having a diameter less than 0.0039 mm. Clay is widely used to make bricks, pottery, and tiles.