noun
compost
a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer
In a sentence
Six example sentences with compost, each labelled with its topic.
The city hands out free compost each spring, built from leaf piles and stable sweepings collected the previous autumn.
Environment
Carrot tops and eggshells go into the compost bin, so the kitchen sends almost nothing to the curb on trash day.
Cooking
Their first product was a countertop bin that turns scraps into compost in two weeks, which sold out before shipping.
Startups
Bacteria working inside a compost heap raise its core temperature above sixty degrees, hot enough to kill weed seeds.
Science
The nursery sells its own compost by the bag, turning last season's trimmings into a product with better margins than the plants.
Business
Roman farm manuals told landowners to heap compost near the barn and spread it on the fields each spring.
History
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