turfy
Example Sentences
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“It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.”
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021
It’s a classically Irish palette, balancing the turfy and the moony.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2021
White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered.
From Time Magazine Archive
A snatch of turfy drumming, then I went flying over a ruck and the ground booted the air out of me and I got a glimpse of a leaping dog's flank.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Above the whole towers the purple mass of Adam's Peak, and wherever the eye roams, it surveys the most prodigal foliage, and glades rich in verdure, and turfy slopes deep in flowers.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
