Sentence examples for instead of grasses from inspiring English sources

They say their golf courses will be filled with seashore paspalum, a salt-tolerant grass, and with local flora instead of grasses that require a lot of water.

Cattle being fed grains instead of grasses -- and in many cases, ground-up bits of other animals including their own species -- develop abnormal conditions in their GI tract, such as a change in the pH level.

Representative results of either adding Acorus to the Goremykin et al. [ 19] matrix or substituting it for grasses are shown in Fig. 2. Using Acorus instead of grasses to represent monocots has a major effect on the results.

Instead of grass, it grew gravel, raked into geometric patterns by the cook's son, who appeared to have no other occupation.

The sun's out and the bare branched trees, expanses of gravel instead of grass and lack of people make it feel strange and foreign, and actually quite romantic (try to avoid the loos though, which cost 50 cents a time).

So when you feed a less methane-emitting animal grain instead of grass you are tying up huge ecosystems into monoculture and plowing and sending enormous amounts of CO2 into the air with the plows.

At the same time, rising demand for biofuels is pushing up the price of corn and other grains, which is what farmers in the United States, Europe, Canada and Japan feed their cows instead of grass.

Had low oxygen been the cause, he said, bottom-dwelling fish such as bunker and menhaden would have died instead of grass shrimp, which live in more oxygenated shallow water.

New York cricket is "bush cricket," one of the characters in the book complains, played on wickets of cocoa mat instead of grass and on weedy, substandard pitches, where to score a run you need to bat the ball in the air instead of elegantly along the fast ground of a proper pitch.

Now we came into Juan's hometown where several of the Mexicali street-whores lived, and although Juan wanted to stop to buy more coke, business, personified by me, demanded that we leave behind those long blocks of tiny houses of cracked dry mud whose yards were dirt instead of grass.

It was the place that gave trick or treating an extra kick, where the harmless eccentric lived, where the owner planted wildflowers instead of grass, or who put naked Greek sculptures in the yard and painted the siding purple or pink.