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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

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

“It kills the dormant weed seeds and vegetation that you want to get rid of, and it creates a microclimate for earthworms to decompose the thatch and create a nice seed bed.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

Nothing would be left but dust, and chunks of limestone, and bits of thatch settling on the floor.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

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

In the other direction, renters outnumber homeowners living in bungalows and simple two-story houses with thatches of neat front lawns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2020

The poorer houses were entirely unroofed, the thatches having been given to feed the cattle, which had nevertheless died; so that cattle had disappeared altogether from the land.

From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Carey, H. C. (Henry Charles)

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 homes are filled with quirky leaded glass windows, uneven angles and heaps of wood shingles, resembling a thatched straw roof.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

The miniature two-storey thatched cottage was gifted to a young Princess Elizabeth in 1932 by the people of Wales.

From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025

Today, Mr. Fox writes, there are merely “300 thatched buildings left in the whole of Scotland, and just three Highland thatchers capable of maintaining them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

I walked through a small village where chickens and gnomes were scattered among little houses with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"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

Coconut thatching, some of it still part of the old palm lightning had destroyed, as I could tell from the colour.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya