Examples of caliche in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Later that same year, the Valley again attracted widespread attention when 21 teenagers were killed in Alton after a school bus collided with a bottling company truck and careened into a caliche pit. — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 5 Dec. 2020 Today, through Woodward’s efforts, the gravel road to the crossing has been improved and a large area has been cleared and covered with caliche. — John Maccormack, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Nov. 2020 His home is about 20 miles from downtown Odessa, on an unmarked caliche road off of the Kermit Highway, amid nodding pump jacks and property covered with sage, mesquite and huisache trees. — John Maccormack, ExpressNews.com, 2 Sep. 2019 Located across the street from partner The Venetian Resort, approximately 110,000 cubic yards of dirt and caliche are being moved to make way for what will be one of the most state-of-the-art live entertainment and sports complexes in the world. — Melinda Sheckells, Billboard, 24 July 2019 In Presidio, Randy Kennedy’s debut novel, the landscape of the Panhandle, West Texas, and the Mexican border, with its caliche and shin oaks and pumpjacks and ocotillo, brushes alongside the plot like an intricate central character. — Eve Macsweeney, Vogue, 17 Aug. 2018 Plant bare-root roses and trees, breaking up caliche if trees will be taprooted. — idahostatesman, 21 Mar. 2018 There was little reason to pave our driveway, because white caliche rock tracks like glue and deposits all over the ground during wet weather. — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 19 July 2017

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