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Example sentences for "grass"

Lexicographically close words:
graptolites; grasp; grasped; grasping; grasps; grassed; grasses; grasshopper; grasshoppers; grassie
  1. They that would make grass be eaten do now eat grass, in this manner?

  2. Depositing the nectar on a third barrel at her side, I sank to my ease upon a soft patch of lush spring grass and budding dandelions.

  3. When the end of his allotted time came, though the grass was springing green and fresh and the trees were bursting into leaf again, the geysers and hot springs spouted merrily on.

  4. When summer heats scorch the prairies, you can draw up under the mountains where the air is sweet and cool, the grass fresh, and the bright streams come tumbling out of the snowy-banks.

  5. Following a trail from Violet Springs, we were lucky in encountering a herd of from four to five hundred grazing where the spring sunshine was uncovering the grass on a broad expanse of southerly sloping upland.

  6. As we were now in Sweet Grass County, the body was under the jurisdiction of the Coroner at Big Timber.

  7. All the incoming Mog had to do was to kick up a few clouds of dust and turn the sun loose on the grass and trees to have the place just as he had left it.

  8. Then he threw dust on all of the beautiful colored mountains, dried up the grass and shook the leaves from the trees, so that when it came to his rival's turn to take charge, Lob found affairs in a very sad way indeed.

  9. So the little brown bear lay on the soft grass in the meadow.

  10. He saw something in the grass ahead of him.

  11. He liked to curl up in the tall grass and sleep.

  12. TEDDY BEAR I Teddy Bear lay on the grass in the meadow.

  13. A gentle wind began to blow over the tall grass in the field.

  14. Mr. Man is cutting the grass in the field.

  15. Then Mother Rabbit took him to a place where the grass was tender.

  16. When the grass was long and the May-flowers were in bloom and the cuckoo was singing in the trees, he passed peacefully to his Rest.

  17. Sunday intervened, and the grass was left to dry until the Monday.

  18. I did not go in for such a girl's trick as to faint; but I never afterwards could trace the minutes as they had passed until Tod was lying on the grass under the trees.

  19. He was passing along slowly, the children running about the field, on which the second crop of grass was beginning to grow, when voices on the other side of the hedge struck on his ear.

  20. The Squire had on a straw hat; Tod lay on the grass outside, in the shade of the laurels; Hugh and Lena stood at the bench near him, blowing bubbles and chattering like magpies.

  21. Snow lodged on the trees, hid the grass in the fields, covered the hills in the distance.

  22. These consisted of posts set up with a slight slant toward the center, over which was laid in several layers the long grass of the canyon.

  23. The Professor laid the boy on the grass a little distance from the table, where not a smile had appeared on a single face.

  24. Then a little further on they came upon a sandstone plateau from which they could look down into the Indian Garden, another plateau rich with foliage, green grass and a riot of flowers.

  25. And the woods and the grass smell so fine!

  26. A little home all to themselves, with six rooms and a bath, with a grass plat in front and calla-lilies.

  27. The shirt itself was a mass of grass stains and was spotted with the dentist's blood.

  28. And upwards, through the grass and miniature trees, the path goes winding and zig-zig-zagging till it lands us on the flat roof of the hill, in front of the little palace.

  29. Do you mean to say you'll let the grass grow beneath your shoes for an hour?

  30. There was light enough, and no more, to gather grass for Don, who was tied fast to the branch of a tree.

  31. Here they stopped and unlimbered, because there was a little stream where Don and the deerhound could drink, besides nice, long, green grass for the donkey.

  32. Only that the grass was too luxuriant and that here and there were rushes, it might have seemed a pleasant glade.

  33. They had not proceeded much farther when he noticed some dark looking object protruding above the grass a short distance ahead.

  34. Bateman were out rounding up the stock and the grass was hurting his feet badly, he said as he hobbled along, "I do wish the Lord would send me a pair of shoes.

  35. The "white wool" may have been furnished by the sheep that cropped the slopes of the Antilibanus, or by those fed on the fine grass which clothes most of the plain at its base.

  36. There the poet dismissed the car and let that wondering voter on to the grass and seated himself on a rug.

  37. I emerged from the shadow of London into the gleaming sun; the bright green grass and the king-cups were flaming in the light, and the little stream was singing a happy song.

  38. They were small and flat as though they had come up only recently from the sea, and they had no sand or rocks like honest isles, but green grass down to the water.

  39. At last I was aware that somewhere near me a blade of grass was growing, and the moss began to appear all over the dead houses.

  40. Then turning towards Green Park, where as yet Spring was not, the beggars stretched out their hands, and looking at the frozen grass and the yet unbudding trees they, chanting all together, prophesied daffodils.

  41. Mackenzie has shot two on a grass field at Tournaig, close to the edge of Loch Ewe.

  42. Immediately from the water's edge, a lofty range of grey cliffs rises to a great height, so steep as almost to seem perpendicular, but varied by fissures and by projections covered with grass and wild plants.

  43. In spring, before the grass on the hills has made any growth, the sheep everywhere attack the primroses, so that no early blooms can be found except among wet places and rocks.

  44. Towards the end of winter, when frosts and snows are done with, much of the heather assumes an indefinable grey tint, and the bent-grass becomes a sandy brown.

  45. Of the grasses, the most noticeable is that species of bent-grass which so abounds on all the moorlands and hill sides, mingling with the heather, ferns, and flowers.

  46. They feed on grass and heather, and even on lichens and mosses.

  47. If they have a lot of lands, grass for two or three cows, and fishing materials, they seldom have any further objects of ambition.

  48. It used to be very abundant in grass or corn.

  49. When they were leaving him, Alastair heard not the sound of their tread nor saw them make a step, but they passed away as if a gust of wind were bending down the tall grass on the hillside.

  50. It is this grass which, with its orange tinge of colour in autumn, gives to hills and moors a rich deep colour like old gold.

  51. When I turned to the field again I saw Rosalind coming toward me along the path, clad in white, hatless, and her hands lightly brushing the lush grass that seemed to leap up to touch them.

  52. I sat down in the grass while Gillespie found the sailor's pail and went to fetch water.

  53. Then something stirred in the farther corner, and I slowly made out the figure of a man tied hand and foot, lying on his back in a pile of grass and leaves.

  54. He had not closed the window and would undoubtedly return in a few minutes; so I waited until he was out of sight, then rose and crawled through the grass to the opening.

  55. From this rim there ran a zigzag crevice, an inch wide, obliquely downward along the rock to the shelf below, on which grew a handful of long grass and two or three slender shrubs.

  56. He hesitated a moment, and then, leaving his horse cropping the long rich grass that grew among the ruins, followed her.

  57. In return the Christians delivered, at close range, a musketry and cross-bow fire, so deadly in its effects that the front ranks of the Indians were mowed down like grass before a scythe.

  58. Outside the city Huetzin's grim Tlascalans, each with a fillet of grass bound about his head to distinguish him from an Aztec or a Cholulan, awaited the signal that should send them into action with an equal impatience.

  59. From the packet that he bore the priest produced a robe of the coarse cotton (nequen) worn by the lower classes, with which Huetzin gladly covered his naked body, a pair of grass sandals, and a dagger of itztli.

  60. The little plot of enclosed ground, which should be planted in grass or with a few flowers, is a mere dirt court, tramped over by the few worshippers who enter the Cathedral this way.

  61. He feels the dark, old houses are unreal, as if, instead of cobble-stones beneath his feet, there must be the soft and tender grass of Araby the Blest.

  62. The roof is tiled, and from out a flattened dome, blades of grass sprout sparsely.

  63. Red Cloud said that the pale-faces are more than the grass in numbers.

  64. The white people have sprinkled blood on the blades of grass about the line of Fort Fetterman.

  65. The black-tailed deer are fine eating; the grass on which they feed in the mountains is said to make the meat tender and sweet.

  66. Our nation is melting away like the snow on the side of the hills where the sun is warm, while your people are like the blades of grass in the spring when summer is coming.

  67. Then we go through forests of manaca palms that spread out on a single stem sideways and form arches over our heads with the leaves hanging in front of us like portiers or we cross great plains of grass and cactus and rock.

  68. This latter seems a little view to take of it but it means a great deal as the insects prevent your doing anything in a natural way; as for instance sitting on the grass or sleeping on the ground or hunting through the bushes.

  69. We took a long walk to-day, with the three dogs, and it was pitiful to see how glad they were to be free of the cellar and a back yard and at large among grass and rocks and roots of trees.

  70. Roosevelt ordered his men to do the same thing and we ran forward cheering across the open and then dropped in the grass and fired.

  71. We put a rubber blanket on the grass and wrapped up in steamer rugs but both of us died several times of cold and even sitting on the fire failed to warm me.

  72. And the grass is as high as a stirrup and the trees very plentiful after the plains of Texas.

  73. The ground was covered with high grass and cactus and vines so that you could not see twenty feet ahead, the men had to beat the vines with their carbines to get through them.

  74. Since it was Amy’s day to take care of Tommy, she remained at Joan’s home, helping the little fellow scatter his stone blocks over the grass in the side yard.

  75. There were bits of grass uprooted, as though with the toe or heel of a boy’s shoe, unmistakable signs of a struggle.

  76. But almost before he could speak there was father close beside him, standing on a round little hump of dry grass which was sticking up out of the bog, and with one grip he got hold of Olly under his arm, and then jump!

  77. Now the sun has scorched up the fields down below we must take our sheep up to the cool hills, where the grass is still fresh and green.

  78. What a quiet strange world it seemed, the grass and the flowers dripping with dew, and overhead such a blue sky with white clouds sailing slowly about in it.

  79. But these are English mountains, kind, easy mountains, not too high for you and me to climb up, and covered all over with soft green grass and wild flowers, and tiny sheep with black faces.

  80. Over rocks and grass she ran, till, all of a sudden, stepping out from behind a tree, came the king himself, who had been looking for her for hours.

  81. But poor little Tiza lay with her face buried in the grass and nothing they could say to her seemed to reach her little deaf ears.

  82. An up-and-down garden, with beds full of bright flowers, and grass which was nearly all moss, and so soft that no cushion could be softer.

  83. While waiting for the performance to begin, the motley troop encamps on the grass near the theatre.

  84. Then the lilacs were still in full bloom, the grass uncut, and the roses had hardly begun to bud!

  85. Grass eaten with frost on it may cause severe indigestion.

  86. The diet should be laxative and moderate in quantity and may consist of coarse bran mash, pulped roots, grass in the season, and hay in moderate quantity.

  87. Burning over the pasture will destroy most of the young worms on the grass and on the ground, and this means of disinfection under certain circumstances may be very advantageously used.

  88. Portion of grass stalk bearing three encysted cercariæ of the common liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica).

  89. Fresh, green grass or sound ensilage may be fed in small quantities.

  90. Small quantities of roots, sweet silage, or selected grass or hay should be offered several times daily.

  91. The milk of cows fed on potatoes and grass is very poor and watery; that from cows fed on cabbage or Swedish turnips has a disagreeable taste and odor (from the former an offensive liquid has been distilled).

  92. In this stage the larvæ migrate up grass stalks (fig.

  93. Ergot is a fungus which may affect any member of the grass family.

  94. At a certain stage of development the young flukes leave the snails, become encysted on stalks of grass (fig.

  95. Larva of twisted stomach worm (Hæmonchus contortus) coiled on tip of grass blade.

  96. Grass or clover when wet by dew or rain frequently disorders digestion and brings on tympanites; frozen roots or pastures covered with hoar frost should also be regarded as dangerous.

  97. Slight wounds into which the virus may find access may be caused by barbed wire, stubbles, thorns, briers, grass burs, and sharp or pointed parts of feed.

  98. Along one edge of the field Hammond Academy's supporters, nearly a hundred strong, squatted on the grass and strove to keep the burning rays of the sun from their faces by using their flags and pennants as screens.

  99. Now and then a clump of grass or weeds showed against the dark and discolored face of the rock, and in a few places good-sized bushes had grown out.

  100. Roy subsided breathless on the grass and looked about him.

  101. It was very damp there on the ground and pine needles and grass and twigs were plastered to his body, but he lay still a moment and listened.

  102. It was no longer raining, but the ground was wet underfoot and the grass and low growth threw drops against his bare ankles.

  103. St. James's park was crossed, and the grass of the Green park, to avoid inquisitive friends.


  104. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grass" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grass land; grassy places; grassy plain