Sentence examples for dry lawn from inspiring English sources

A barefoot man in shorts swept a small patch of dry lawn.

In a reactive system a dry lawn would be watered; in an anticipatory system the lawn is automatically watered because it would become dry if it were not.

Millipedes cannot live long in dry areas, so they will naturally migrate away from a dry lawn.

Reservoirs were dry, lawns brown and swimming pools empty.

They reminded me of dry lawns and stifled suburban gardens.

Now, many local landscapers fear that they will lose work because dry lawns stay dormant longer.

When it does rain here, it tends to pour, sheeting across hard surfaces and dry lawns to storm sewers.

This could mean more dry lawns, shorter showers and fallow fields in those states, although conservation efforts might help them adjust to the cutbacks.

4.50pm BST Discovering Columbus We pass the huge Cummins Engine plant on the south side of town, and turn back through the residential outskirts, lined with two-storey Victorian white clapboard houses with yellowy-green dry lawns, flaking white air conditioning units propping up windows, topless grandpas sitting on porches.

Once you know this, you understand that the short showers and dry lawns may be well intentioned, but they are not a water solution.

When it comes to water in California, the dry lawns and short showers are a novelty, but as you may already know the bulk of the water in California is consumed in commercial agriculture.