The gravediggers took up their spades and flung heavy clods of clay in on the coffin.

This process removes some of the heavy clods, unrotted materials and stony bits that would not be great if added to the planting areas.

Farther down the row, there was evidence that the earth had been turned, heavy clods piled up near a shallow excavation site.

Remove any stones or heavy clods.

I removed my straw hat and was easing upward when a heavy clod of dirt landed less than two feet from my head.

The shelling had resumed; someone had bombed the barn with heavy clods of dirt until after midnight.

Having some great heavy clod lay on you like that?

It looked like exactly what it was: a cheap imitation of life discreetly masking the heavy brown clods of the final earth.

Like some heavy clod or boulder cast up from the bowels of the earth, it is a thing of brute, powerful strength.

The ground was thick with mud and heavy clods stuck to their sandals and slowed them.