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Surrounded by floodwaters, their hamlet of thatch and mud homes had been battling a massive outbreak of cholera, a deadly disease spread by poor sanitation.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The frequent cutting also reduces thatch buildup and creates healthier, thicker grass, while minimizing the use of pesticides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

The carrots and daikon are on the sweet side, contrasting nicely with the copious amounts of sliced jalapeño and a heavy thatch of cilantro.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

A second pass occurs in the later, dry season to remove what’s known as thatch from the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

He had a messy thatch of brown hair and an Adam’s apple sharp as a teenager’s, but he was at least ten years older than me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Thurman is a natural at intoning amid the wispy thatches of underscoring, and she sometimes tries to inject some attitude into the dry libretto.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2022

Bryson DeChambeau fought the wind blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St. George’s.

From Fox News ● Jul. 15, 2021

Bryson DeChambeau’s new muscles were no match for the wind blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St. George’s.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

Six women raise their hands, flashing thick thatches of unshorn underarm hair.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

They saw the women in their miserable huts, or jacales, built of a few sticks driven into the ground and covered with old blankets and thatches of straw.

From Mary's Rainbow by Mary Edward Feehan

"If you look around, there are hardly any houses with iron-sheet roofs; most are just thatched houses."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Many of Raja's community, more widely known as the Onge, still live in near isolation in neat thatched homes on stilts in coastal forests.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The building was made from locally gathered clay and peat, with sedge grass for its thatched roof.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Hotel staff cordoned off Tysoe’s lounger, running yellow-and-black police tape from thatched beach umbrella to thatched beach umbrella.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Above these was a small balcony backed by a curtain and, above that, a thatched roof which covered the rear half of the stage.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

"People were still thatching roofs and replanting," she said, warning that "for those communities, it will be even harder to reset".

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

And crafts can be up for consideration, such as basket-weaving, thatching and the art of creating tartan and tweed.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

The effect of the thatching — a discrete work in itself, called “Facade” — is startling and has drawn enormous online attention.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Endless cross thatching in a bowl of noodles, meat, and cheese, that may or may not hold together when you invert the whole concoction onto a plate.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2019

He slurped the thatching back into his mouth without looking away from her.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack