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sod

[sod] / sɒd /




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It’s sold as a sod available to landscape professionals and homeowners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 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

Leafie passed by after I’d fallen hard in the sod.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

On the exterior, the houses have raised panel shutters, a concrete walkway, an asphalt driveway, fully sodded front, side and rear yards, vinyl siding and a 30-year warranty on the roof shingles.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2020

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

She has seeded and sodded estates for the likes of David Geffen, Stavros Niarchos and Rupert Murdoch, and her haute habitats dot townhouse backyards and prewar rooftops from the Village to Park Avenue.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2014

The wheels of heavily loaded wagons sank deep into the mud and left gaping lacerations, adding to the list of wounds to be filled, smoothed, and sodded.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“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

Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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