sod

Example Sentences

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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

USC’s new baseball stadium isn’t slated to open to the public until early 2026, but the Trojans began practicing here on the field in February, as soon as the sod had set.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

Further down the street, another tree had been uprooted so forcefully that it also pulled up a big corner of sod from a lawn.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

She gestured at the churned up earth and sod.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss