Sentence examples for sod from inspiring English sources
The word "sod" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to an area of turf or grass, or to refer to an unpleasant person. For example, "He's such a sod - he never helps with the chores."
noun
That stratum of the surface of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass, or any portion of that surface; turf; sward.
And don't be tempted to follow a couple of "civilians", just for a laugh: when Kanye West did that to a student from Coventry, the influx of fan and press attention nearly drove the poor sod crazy.
With voters taking a "sod you" attitude to the main parties after the MPs' expenses scandal, 2010 ought to be a perfect Sussex storm for the Greens.
Is Cameron trying to get people to subconsciously imagine him in a third term?! Is it better to say 'no' and then retract it in 2020 and stay; is this a win-win for Cameron?? Or was it just an honest, simple answer??" – Taunton Deane "Cocky sod, he's not got a second yet".
In his famously 'enigmatic' interviews (ie: he's an infuriating,tight- lipped sod until the tape recorder is turned off), he still manages to get in the odd dig at RSAMD specifically, and drama schools generally ('I had rawness and energy, and that's the thing drama schools try to squash out of you. They don't like ragged edges').
With the run of actual hit singles drying up in the past five years, however, contestants on the live shows now recreate full performances from previous contestants, with highlights being a mildly unhinged version of Katie Waissel's version of Don't Give Up on Me, complete with bird's-nest wig and "sod it" outburst; a sensitive rereading of Jedward's incredible version of Britney's Oops.
The deluge of gardening programmes on BBC2 a few years ago was caused by the then controller's solipsistic assumption that the channel's audience was as entranced by the sod and the trowel as she was.
The poor sod is dead on his feet and can't outrun Kerome Boateng, who gets back to relieve him of possession.
So I guess I'm a lucky sod".
It was intriguing that he was offered the IMF job after all the humiliation of having to "turn back at the airport" in the middle of the 1976 crisis and apply for an IMF loan, and his frequent use of the phrase "sod-off day" when the Labour government finally emerged from the clutches of the fund.
Jim Woolsey, a Prius-driving former head of the CIA, who numbers himself among them, calls it "a coalition of tree-huggers, sod-busters, cheap hawks and evangelicals".Sod-busters, explains Mr Woolsey, is a south-western term for farmers.
They damage the nursery and sod-growing industry, which is worth $200m a year in South Carolina alone.
