sward

Example Sentences

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And the pictures are ravishing: a Massachusetts lighthouse on a grassy sward under an azure sky; a winding two-lane road through New Zealand’s Southern Alps that disappears into the snow-dusted hulk of Mt.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2018

Soon we learned that the sward circle was actually trampled by local wild hogs; and for our show to be performed ... well, let’s just fast forward another few years.

From The Guardian • May 20, 2016

Picture his bemusement when, out of the blue, he is invited to the du Pont estate, and gently deposited by private chopper on the sward.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2014

I could catalog them — the plush sward of Sheep Meadow, the boat pond, the elegant bridges — but let me suggest the Mall alone as reason enough.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2010

The two horses pulled themselves up, their duty done, and began resignedly to eat the sward.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White