What is "claylike"

Usage examples of "claylike".

He extracted a piece of C-4 and molded the claylike charge into a small wad the size of a walnut.

He picked up a chunk of grayish, claylike dirt and crumbled it into my hand.

The surface was a wild mixture of sand, rock, and gravel, baked claylike material, all of it convoluted along hillocks and depressions.

It was not sandy, but instead hardened and almost claylike in its composition.

Lifting an edge of the sheet he pulled it away, exposing the entire body, altogether naked and showing in the candlelight a claylike yellow.

Lifting an edge of the sheet he pulled it away, exposing the entire body, altogether naked and showing in the candle-light a claylike yellow.

Now half-grown and half-feathered, they pecked in the claylike soil between their feedings.

Then we rolled the claylike goop into balls, wrapped them in wet ferns and leaves to keep them from drying out, and lined the furnace well with the stuff.

Finally he came to a section where the mud was uncomfortably warm and the walls were a soft claylike stuff that would hold the tracks of fingers dragged along it, and some fluid was bubbling out of the cracks between the soggy bricks.