How to Use loess in a Sentence

loess

noun

• The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
• Many fatalities were linked to the collapse of yaodongs—homes carved into loess hillsides.
  — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
  — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• The base played a critical role in national defense, housing a command bunker, planted deep into the regional loess, that was designed to withstand a nuclear blast.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
• The Rhône's predominantly granite soils versus Walla Walla's basalt bedrock, riverbed cobbles, and windblown loess.
  — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026