old sod

Example Sentences

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In 2006, he purchased 1,800 acres of property to develop as a luxury golf resort in Scotland, the old sod, his mother’s birthplace.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

First, I scraped off the old sod, most of it the color of urine, in hopes of installing a new front yard the gophers could be proud of.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

I remember watching him thinking, you crafty old sod, you make it look so easy.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

Golodoff, 6 at the time, recalled running for the shelter of an old sod building as the Imperial troops stormed into the town.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2014

Oh, the angel, how I'd bless her if her home with me she'd make, In my little old sod shanty— "Got her yet?"

From The Flying U's Last Stand by Bower, B. M.