Sentence examples for sprig of grass from inspiring English sources
After five days, we entered a maze of dry gorges where even a toe-high sprig of grass was a rarity.
"There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me," was Thomas Jefferson's mandate as the team set out in 1803 to search for the Northwest Passage.
It had been "Plowed in on all sides by the 'suitcase' farmers, whose uncontrolled loose dirt, pushed before the wind, has gnawed away every sprig of grass that dares show above ground".
He squatted under an apple tree, trying not to look at the sahibs, pulling up sprigs of grass, tying them into figures and knots, hoping to be summoned.
On the spot where the last known landmine was destroyed by the side of a railway line, I found fresh sprigs of grass poking up through the fertile soil, in what is rich sugar cane growing country.
At the first sign of a summer dry period and some sprigs of haylike grass, out come the sprinklers.
It was roughly trapezoidal in cross-section a long, unbroken loaf of sand running most of the length of the island, with sprigs of beacross-section ag in evenlongpaced rows on top of the completed sections, like hair-transplant plunbroken
It was roughly trapezoidal in cross-section — a long, unbroken loaf of sand running most of the length of the island, with sprigs of beach grass growing in evenly spaced rows on top of the completed sections, like hair-transplant plugs.
Sprigs of green grass are popping up, as are aromatic flowers of all colors.
A sprig of flowers on page 27.
