Sentence examples for sloping turf from inspiring English sources
As we stood on the edge of the huge, grassy-sided bowl that had served as a stadium for the ancient Games, we felt we could almost see the shouting, chiton-clad spectators, forty-five thousand of whom could have been seated on the sloping turf, and almost hear, from the arena below, the labored exhalations of the athletes.
Pitches were ever-variable, from the dirt paddocks and bouncy concrete of his boyhood to the rain-spongy, quaint grass of England ("Jeezzz, it's not even level!" was his first reaction to the sacred sloping turf of Lord's).
This is sheep country, and on sloping, heavily grazed turf the researchers found that the "soak-in" rate was close to zero.
In front of the Royal Crescent is a Ha-ha, a trench on which the inner side of which is vertical and faced with stone, with the outer face sloped and turfed, making the trench, in effect, a sunken fence or retaining wall.
As he passed Martino and accelerated, sprinting in a long arc, he tore through Barcelona's technical area, where the turf slopes downwards away from the field.
Marshland appears red and brown while the drier slopes of turf and partially submerged granite are scattered with sheep, all startlingly white on the drab hillsides.
Covers on the sloping pitch ensured a prompt if squelchy kick-off, though the heaviness of the turf was not the equaliser it might have been.
The present research has proposed methods on how to mitigate this Geo-Environmental problem, which included the use of slope drainage, turfing, shotcreting, retaining walls, sheet pile walls, change of slope geometry, reinforced soil wall, crib wall, gabion wall, contiguous bored pile wall, Geotextiles and soil nailing.
