GRASS in a Sentence

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For GRASS, below is one of 245 sentences:
Cardboard crowns, swords made of silver paper, turbans that were sixpenny dish cloths, lay on the grass or were flung on the bushes.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRASS
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grass
 n.  a low, green plant with narrow leaves growing naturally over much of the earth's surface
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Having finished his scrutiny, he proceeded slowly down the path, or rather down the fringe of grass which flanked the path, keeping his eyes riveted upon the ground.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  They rolled in the dew, they cropped mouthfuls of the sweet summer grass, they kicked up clods of the black earth and snuffed its rich scent.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
3  The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
4  Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
5  The grass and the bursting hedges were gilded by the level rays of the sun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  The sight of their dead comrades stretched upon the grass moved some of them to tears.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  Their roots broke the turf, and among those bones were green waterfalls and cushions of grass in which violets grew in spring or in summer the wild purple orchis.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
8  The little boy had lagged and was grouting in the grass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  And the tree was beyond the flower; the grass, the flower and the tree were entire.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
10  Silently they manoeuvred in their water world, poised in the blue patch made by the sky, or shot silently to the edge where the grass, trembling, made a fringe of nodding shadow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
11  A thread united them--visible, invisible, like those threads, now seen, now not, that unite trembling grass blades in autumn before the sun rises.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
12  The clothes were strewn on the grass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
13  Cardboard crowns, swords made of silver paper, turbans that were sixpenny dish cloths, lay on the grass or were flung on the bushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
14  It fell within an inch of the dog's head on the grass by his side.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
15  The grass was sleek and shining.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The heat shrivelled up the grass.
17  They ordered us to strip and lie down on the grass.
18  The notice said 'Keep off the grass'.
19  The object was part hidden by the grass.
20  The grass is greener on the other side.
21  The runway is simply a strip of grass.
22  We finally found a patch of grass to sit down on.
23  The lion stalked its prey through the long grass.
24  When the last crisp slice of bacon was gone, the boys stretched themselves out on the grass, filled with contentment.
25  Further reason not to fret is that Obama volunteers have been doing grass roots organizing in Texas for quite some time.
26  Over grass bleached colorless by strong sun, we see the herd ooze forward.
27  Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances.
28  Then I carried the sack about a hundred yards across the grass and through the willows east of the house, to a shallow lake that was five mile wide and full of rushes -- and ducks too, you might say, in the season.
29  The long grass rustled at her feet.
30  Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went.