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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

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

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

It was long and low, chinked together from logs and roofed with sod.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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

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