Sentence examples for tuft from inspiring English sources

The great fault of the dibblers is, that they put too many seeds in each dibble hole: if the seed is good, three or four grains, at most, are sufficient; of these one or two only will take the lead, and form the tuft; the others will be overpowered by the more vigorous.

At least, say some, it should help distance Ukraine from Russia, which is carrying out its own experiments in "Eurasian" integration.Still, the "initialling" is little more than a tuft of grass on the barren steppe of EU-Ukrainian relations.

"You get in with one group and govern with another," he reportedly said".Piribebuy has funded a one- room museum, which includes a single tuft of braided hair removed from the mass grave below its 18th-century church"But alienating the Liberals cost him his presidency, because the Paraguayan left was far too weak to protect him.

A gruesome concrete relief, illustrating the horror, has been built on the site; the town has funded a one-room museum, which includes a single tuft of braided hair removed from the mass grave below its 18th-century church.

Its ciliated tuft, which may have sensory abilities, is directed forward in locomotion.

The fruit is a capsule with numerous seeds; each seed has a long tuft of hairs at one end.

During the spawning season, the pelvic fins of the male develop numerous tuft-shaped growths filled with small blood vessels (capillaries).

Just two trees and a bush have managed to take root in the grey and pink rock, while violas, candy-tuft and sea pink valiantly push out of the darkness of the crevices in search of the light.

But the plants need between seven and 10 years to mature, and the spiky tufts on view are too young to produce the juice.

Halfway down a vertical cliff face a sheep was grazing at some tufts of grass.

She sometimes pulled out tufts of my hair".