Sentence examples for modern lawn from inspiring English sources

4 p.m. 1) MODERN LAWN It's where musty meets modern.

After years of domination by just three stars, the rise of Mr Murray gave the sport a welcome shake-up and brought Britain, the country where modern lawn tennis was born, back into its inner circle.

The modern lawn seems to be a deprecated form of the highly manicured English landscape gardens which became popular among the nobility in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries.

After centuries of decline, sealed by the invention of modern lawn tennis, in 1874, a dwindling number of devotees kept real tennis alive, mainly in the United Kingdom, where it was played by men at tony private clubs, public schools, and on the grounds of stately homes.

There, the simplest alternative to the modern, industrialized lawn may be a lawn that functions more or less as it did in the eighteen-forties, before herbicides or even sprinklers had been invented.

These directed the water out tangentially, much in the way that a modern rotary lawn sprinkler does.

Another David work that irritated was a sculpture that stood on Tate Modern's lawn a few years ago.

Anyway, it means that the modern day lawn is replaced in turn by stones outside a pharaoh's tomb, the deck of a pirate ship and the Wild West.

The modern, bladed lawn mower was first seen in a design of 1832; in more recent times the application of the jet-engine principle led to the hover mower.

Yes, it's big and modern, and the lawn and the driveway are terrific places to play ball with our three kids.

We know this from Part 6, Chapter 22, of "Anna Karenina," which he was writing in the eighteen-seventies, when the modern game of "lawn tennis" was developed and patented by Major Walter Clapton Wingfield, a British Army officer.