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sod

[sod] / sɒd /




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Novack and Aggrey, who are both 35, installed the sod in February 2023 with the help of landscapers Carlos Díaz and Miguel Garcia.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

The guitarist didn’t skip a beat: “That suits me, I’m a miserable sod most of the time.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

For this enormous game, new grass was specially sourced from a nearby sod farm.

From Barron's Feb. 7, 2026

Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC Jun. 1, 2025

She sat right down on the dirt floor of our sod house and started laughing and crying all at the same time.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

They're measuring yardages from various positions on the freshly re-graded and sodded teeing area, which is almost as big as our entire golf course:

From Golf Digest Jul. 9, 2016

It was then sodded for a third time in four months before the start of the regular season in an effort to find the right grass and soil combination that would stay rooted.

From Washington Times Aug. 2, 2015

His hands have graded, sodded and seeded playing fields, and they’ve shown a group of scrappy wrestlers how to push their bodies beyond preconceived limitations.

From Washington Post Feb. 20, 2015

Two of the putting surfaces had to be entirely replaced by sod just a week ago — the 10th green had to be sodded twice — and the other greens were ragged.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2013

So we merely dress up and then trail down the stairs and out across the newly sodded front lawn, our shawls dragging behind us, uncertain what’s supposed to happen next.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“Yeah, it seems trivial to have members of the National Guard, you know, sodding the National Mall. But you also have to look at this in context,” she said.

From Slate Aug. 29, 2025

Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses."

From Salon Jul. 6, 2023

It’s considered a nuisance or a weed when it pops up in luscious suburban lawns, long the bane of gardeners and homeowners sodding, sprinkling and nurturing the greenest of grasses.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2018

“We worked on several projects that were funded by Publix, including an herb/vegetable garden for the culinary program, beautification of common grounds and sodding, and landscaping a new yoga/meditation area for the students,” she said.

From Washington Times Jun. 6, 2018

“This path must be laid out like a sodding maze,” said Alice.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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