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Example sentences for "turfed"

Lexicographically close words:
ture; tureen; tureens; tures; turf; turfs; turfy; turgescence; turgid; turkey
  1. The earth below was turfed all over with moss.

  2. Pao-ch'ai felt a wish to catch them for mere fun's sake, so producing a fan from inside her sleeve, she descended on to the turfed ground to flap them with it.

  3. Mount Dunstan turned and looked at her--a pause in his step--they were walking down a turfed path, and over their heads meeting branches of new leaves hung.

  4. Lord Dunholm and his eldest son, Lord Westholt, sauntered together smoking their after-dinner cigars on the broad-turfed terrace overlooking park and gardens which seemed to sweep without boundary line into the purplish land beyond.

  5. But, when she found herself alone with him in the turfed walk, she froze up into shy dignity.

  6. I told you, mother, I met him in that turfed walk, and he said what I told you.

  7. This, the only turfed "quad", is the largest of them all.

  8. Mr. Brown had to get down on his hands and knees, with gardener's shears, to clip the turfed borders and banks, and take a sickle to the hummocks.

  9. On each side of me next my nearest neighbor I have a turfed alley between a continuous bed of flowering shrubs and plants next the division line, and a similar bed whose meanderings border my lawn.

  10. They directed their steps to an old turfed barrow, with a few gnarled thorn trees, wind-swept and stunted round it.

  11. On its left is the land of bayous, lakes, and swamps; on its right, the beautiful short-turfed prairies of Western Louisiana.

  12. Remember whose grave you turfed up in the cemetery.

  13. So when our lawn-tennis ground was being made, Slack agreed to leave the village door-steps to cool for a few days while he turfed the graded ground.

  14. From the beautifully turfed level above the maze, or from the parterre terrace above that, one can overlook the hedges and enjoy, if so inclined, occasional glimpses of ensnared and perplexed visitors.

  15. Close to the summit of the hill is an earthwork having the form of a square turfed level surrounded by a low bank and bearing the traditional name of "The Wilderness.

  16. On warm mornings we would choose some secluded spot on the beach, or on the fragrant, green-turfed cliffs, or in the Uplyme meadows.

  17. They were not long reaching the wood; and the chauffeur raised no objection to taking the car up the broad turfed aisle from which ran the path to the knoll.

  18. Sir Maurice bade Miss Lambart good-by, saluted the archduke, and the car went bumping down the turfed aisle.

  19. Rents are low, turfed hills are near, and there is good hunting.

  20. No one can deny, that a ride upon a smooth-turfed prairie is one of the most positive pleasures of sublunary existence.

  21. The alley might have been likened to a strait in the sea: its smooth turfed surface contrasting with the darker foliage of the bordering thickets; as water with dry land.

  22. The surface was broken by natural rising grounds and artificial terraces; the soil was turfed in the manner I have previously described, with minute plants of different colours arranged in bands and patterns.

  23. Each garden was, so to speak, turfed with minute plants, smaller than daisy roots, and even more closely covering the soil than English lawn grass.


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