How to Use subsoil in a Sentence

subsoil

noun
  • The subsoils are terres blanches, pure chalk; the wine is aged in older, large tonneaux for one year.
    — Tom Hyland, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Built on the edge of the city's main expressway, the mall had suffered previous subsoil slides.
    — Frank Miles, Fox News, 12 July 2018
  • Gro-Low sumac struggles like most other plants if the planting bed consists of rock-hard subsoil.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Until recently, the site had been deepfrozen in the subsoil known as permafrost.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • But crops like hay and pasture grasses rely on subsoil moisture, which have been the most affected by the drought.
    — Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Willamette Valley ponderosa pine often tolerates and roots into both clayey and rocky subsoil.
    — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2020
  • Natural and man-made grooves in the subsoil or bedrock hold more moisture than the undisturbed ground around them and are usually filled with richer soils.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2018
  • After scraping you’ll likely be left with subsoil, layers of clay or sand, that lack the life-giving nutrients plants require.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Some foundations penetrate a few feet into the ground at most, but there is no need to penetrate deep into the subsoil or beyond.
    — University Of Houston Energy Fellows, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Edgewater’s coastal subsoil is similar to that of the barrier island.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • New construction should be set to stable subsoils with adequate footings to preclude uneven settling of your home's structure.
    — Duo Dickinson, courant.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • This land was stripped of its dense vegetation by miners scouring the subsoil for tiny specks of gold, using mercury to separate the gold from the sediment.
    — Simeon Tegel, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024
  • One thing that makes the area special is the subsoil’s high proportion of limestone, great chunks of which are piled up along Vineyard Road, where some of the top wineries are located.
    — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 25 July 2017
  • Consecutive years of bone-dry weather and stretches of triple-digit heat left little of the subsoil moisture that usually builds up over winter and sustains cotton plants when rain is sparse.
    — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Chief Meteorologist Steve Horstmeyer said those are created when cold works downward through wet soil and subsoil.
    — Jessica Schmidt, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • According to the Constitution, the subsoil where extraction would take place belongs to the Ukrainian people .
    — Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The chateau’s Grand Cru vineyards cover 170 acres of gravely soil on top of limestone and silicate subsoils which offer excellent drainage.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
  • For instance, in Miami, a developer can pay into a fund and be granted the right to build 20 extra stories, regardless of the size of the lot or the subsoil below.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026
  • The windblown loess soil comprises freshwater sedimentary topsoil resting over fractured basalt subsoil.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 June 2020
  • Rather, their measurements, at four different depths up to 90 centimeters, showed that there was actually sufficient moisture because the subsoil can store water for a long period of time.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 July 2023
  • His contemporary approach to winemaking—based partly on geology—focuses on the critical interaction between subsoils and vines in producing high-quality wines.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

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