Sentence examples for grass from inspiring English sources

Kvitova has always had power and nerve, as you would expect from someone who won on the grass of Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.

Quite apart from most players detesting such pitches, a handful of key England performers, including Steph Houghton, the influential captain, are still working their way back to match fitness following lengthy lay-offs and would have much preferred the rather more forgiving feel of grass beneath their feet.

Once in, I sat on the grass, hoping, hoping, hoping to get a touch of the ball, as it sped over the so, so smooth field, my feet occasionally, rakishly, rebelliously, resting over the rope to show just how cool I was.

Today, Thoronka washes his set of spare clothes in the public toilets and then spreads them out on the grass in the park to dry.

He and my father had pitched their tent in the stolen corner of a farmer's lot, and so it was from inside the fence that my brother saw, not 10 feet away from him, the newborn calf slither on to the grass, unfurl its legs, and stand.

He knew this in the rough and tumble of hurling, the world's fastest sport played on grass.

Uefa, which has backed its policies with rigorous economic and survey research, is not fooled by the Premier League's relentless trumpeting of its good works, including the distribution of 5% of its TV revenue to grass roots facilities via the Football Foundation.

A spry elderly man scythed emerald green grass into stooks in a tiny field.

We sat down in the sun-warmed grass and feasted on peppery sausage, soft sheep's cheese and yeasty bread, while an eagle floated past overhead.

A Russian state television reporter dropped a lit cigarette butt at the scene of raging wildfires in Siberia, sparking a fire in grass a few metres from a village, his channel has confirmed.

We used to go to South Africa every year and there was this beautiful grass track at a place we used to train, about an hour north of Johannesburg.