Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.

土 character breakdown

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
ten / 10

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

Characters with 土 as component

adjoin
dam / to stop / check
a dry moat outside a city wall / a dry ditch

= + : The emperor has been imprisoned in the anglepod for too long. So far, he could not escape because of the dirt walls and dry moat dividing the anglepod's kitchen, but finally, Helga Horse came to his help: Carrying the emperor, it's an easy mission for her to jump over the dirt walls and the dry moat.
hate
low wall
(used in place names) / also pr. [feng1]
variant of 鹼|碱[jian3] / base / soda
(dialect) hill
(dialect) newly-mined ore
(literary) to plaster / to pick up / to rest

Words with 土

locally born and bred / indigenous / home-grown
earthen kiln / loess cave
produced locally / local product (with distinctive native features)
excavated soil and rock / construction spoil
temple dedicated to the local tutelary god 土地神[tu3 di4 shen2] and the god of cereals
hillbilly / yokel / redneck / bumpkin
clay ox / mound of earth on a dike (ready for emergency repairs)
clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance / worthless object
native dog / mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lou2 gu1])
aardwolf (Proteles cristatus), a small insectivorous relative of the hyena

Sentences with 土

xiǎo
shén
shì
běn
yuán
tǔ
di
 
 
lái
zhè
r
cì
hòu
dà
shèng