How to Use red soil in a Sentence

red soil

noun
  • Gullies cut deep from rains expose red soil.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The red soil outlines where trees, downed by Wallow, had lain for years.
    — Anton L. Delgado, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2021
  • Someone sprints to the drone, whose white fuselage stands out against the iron-rich red soil, and covers it with a dark net.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • South Africa has been in a drought for a few years, and the red soil has frazzled into puzzle pieces.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • The kangaroos had stripped any remaining ground cover down to bare red soil.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Kids rifled through spoil piles for beads or pretty potsherds, while the older ones dug craters into the red soil.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2011
  • This soil, also called simulant, is designed and created to mimic the red soil on Mars.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Anas, a Uyghur fighter, points to the grave of a close friend, the white gravestone blinding against the rusty-red soil common to northern Syria.
    — Emily Feng, NPR, 17 May 2026
  • Below the towering mahogany trees that blanket this lush mountainside, hidden beneath the brown-red soil, lie millions of tons of very valuable rock.
    — Stacey Knott, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Those red soils, too, are the product of Mount Konocti, which once smothered its radius with blazing, mineral-rich lava.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018
  • The Site’s two acres comprise Uganda’s trademark red soil and sit on top of Buziga, one of the highest points in Kampala.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The rover’s solar panels and antenna are seen unfolded, and the red soil and rocks on the Martian surface are clearly visible in the image.
    — Mike Wehner, BGR, 19 May 2021
  • Chili-pepper bushes and green-bean vines grow in uniform rows; the fertile red soil of the valley floor is pristine and weed-free; every square inch is meticulously cultivated.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Passengers on board get the full experience, including specialty drinks, music and amazing views of the agave plantations that contrast the red soil and the blue plant.
    — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Passengers on board get the full experience, including specialty drinks, music, and amazing views of the agave plantations that contrast the red soil and the blue plant.
    — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Scientists are still attempting to bring samples of Mars' red soil back to Earth for further study, and human trips to Mars are still years from being feasible.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Future space travelers could depend on Martian dirt for everything from building structures on the planet’s surface to growing plants in Mars’ dusty, red soil.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2018
  • This time of year, Shawn Holladay is usually sitting atop a tractor, laying cotton seeds into rows of red soil on his farm here on the High Plains.
    — Jim Carlton, WSJ, 13 May 2018
  • Both seasons take place in remote northwestern Australia, but while the first prominently features a sprawling ranch, the new one brings Jay to a town where turquoise waters collide with red soil.
    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The cliffs were formed from a perfect mixture of hard rock and the red soil unique to Southwest Utah that allows a tire to neither stick nor slide and that transforms into a malleable clay perfect for building jumps when wet.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The garden, designed by Jilayne Rickards, is a recreation of a rural Zimbabwean outdoor classroom, with rocky red soil planted with edible crops, including iron-rich beans, papaya, and banana trees.
    — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 23 May 2019
  • Redstone Arsenal, named after northern Alabama’s red soil, was established in 1941 as a war chemicals plant with an ordnance facility next door.
    — Alexandra Heal, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023

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