"withered grass" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to grass that has dried out and lost its color and vitality. Example: After the long summer drought, the once bright green lawn was now a field of withered grass, crunching underfoot as I walked across it.
No names are carved in marble, just overgrown, withered grass rustling in the breeze of the Bekaa Valley.
When Dan Biederman '75 first walked through Military Park in downtown Newark, N.J., his eyes did not linger on the withered grass, graffitied concrete, and flickering Victorian lampposts.
Nearby, "amid the thorns and withered grass...dusty paths strewn with animal ordure meander up" to three Arab villages destined to fall in the looming war.Reflecting later on Israel's failings, Philo concludes that "to understand without the ache, you need to take distance from the scene".
Longitudinal morphs resembled withered grass, and horizontal morphs appeared quite similar to the white and black pebbles of the sand microhabitat.
Up here wavelets of snow engulf tufts of withered grass, and chunks of ice dangle on yellow-flowering, stunted, gorse.
Mr. Lindsay-Abaire depicts through small but telling details how their divergent economic destinies have left them with little common ground besides the small patch of withered grass that is their shared schoolyard past.
Underneath the hedge, among last autumn's withered grasses, there were whorls of new primrose leaves surrounding clusters of flower buds.
Historia Naturalis states 'Wine sours if they pass, vines wither, grass dies, and buds are blasted.
The same day, a Lutheran priest in Norway, Johan Brun, reported that falling ash had withered the grass and leaves in Bergen.
Compact little bosses of tiny green needles stud the larch twigs, and amongst the willows the first signs of meadow-sweet are appearing, though the little leaves so far have not reached so high as the down-beaten and withered marsh grasses.
They say that marriages wither like grass in a drought.
