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Surrounded by floodwaters, their hamlet of thatch and mud homes had been battling a massive outbreak of cholera, a deadly disease spread by poor sanitation.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

The frequent cutting also reduces thatch buildup and creates healthier, thicker grass, while minimizing the use of pesticides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

A second pass occurs in the later, dry season to remove what’s known as thatch from the ground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

And Margaret Daiton built a brick and tin house to replace her old one, which was made from mud and thatch and leaked every year in the rains.

From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

There are creepy little things that get into the thatch of the roof, monkey squirrels or something, that you only notice at night.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Thurman is a natural at intoning amid the wispy thatches of underscoring, and she sometimes tries to inject some attitude into the dry libretto.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2022

Bryson DeChambeau fought the wind blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St. George’s.

From Fox News ● Jul. 15, 2021

Bryson DeChambeau’s new muscles were no match for the wind blowing in from the English Channel and the thick thatches of rough at Royal St. George’s.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2021

Six women raise their hands, flashing thick thatches of unshorn underarm hair.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021

Beneath the thatches of their hovels small The terror dwells of feeling It is nigh.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren

"If you look around, there are hardly any houses with iron-sheet roofs; most are just thatched houses."

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Carney homestead, located in the townland of Ayle, was a standard rural dwelling of the time: a thatched cottage with two windows in the front.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Many of Raja's community, more widely known as the Onge, still live in near isolation in neat thatched homes on stilts in coastal forests.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Hotel staff cordoned off Tysoe’s lounger, running yellow-and-black police tape from thatched beach umbrella to thatched beach umbrella.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

Beyond those, ringed by bare dirt, stands a pretty cottage with a thatched roof and stucco walls.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

"People were still thatching roofs and replanting," she said, warning that "for those communities, it will be even harder to reset".

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

And crafts can be up for consideration, such as basket-weaving, thatching and the art of creating tartan and tweed.

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

The effect of the thatching — a discrete work in itself, called “Facade” — is startling and has drawn enormous online attention.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Endless cross thatching in a bowl of noodles, meat, and cheese, that may or may not hold together when you invert the whole concoction onto a plate.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2019

The space inside the cage became a blur of bulging bird eyes, a cloud of thatching hay, and a pair of blue-and-orange wings battering the walls in every direction with a hysterical thwap, thwap, thwap!

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri