Sentence examples for grassy sod from inspiring English sources
A sign on the wall by a pool that was filled in with grassy sod says, "No lifeguard on duty," which is funny at first, and then starts to sound like an ominous judgment about modern American life.
In elaborately staged, mostly nocturnal scenes, ordinary people act in strange ways as a result, possibly, of some kind of supernatural visitation: an entranced man is covering his living room floor with grassy sod; a woman in a short nightgown has built a great mound of flowers in the garage; a pregnant woman sleep-walks in her underwear out on the front lawn.
It is typically practiced in forests, where the loose soil is easily broken up with a simple stick, rather than on grassy plains with heavy sod.
Garden vegetables that are planted in sod fields or other grassy patches are at risk of damage from bronzed cutworms.
But the grassy hill, a piece of the auld sod stripped of sentimentality but not of emotion, is also meant as a space for meditation: how could the greatest famine in nineteenth-century Europe have persisted in the back yard of the wealthiest empire in the world?
Emanuel Ungaro went astray with a "Fantasy Island" scenario that had models swathed in chiffon that was too brightly colored as they traipsed romantically along pink sand paths set amid grassy knolls and tried not to giggle as their dyed-to-match pumps plunged into the damp sod.
