GRASS in a Sentence

Learn GRASS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
245 example sentences for GRASS, such as:
1. The grass was sleek and shining.
2. The bird flew up from the grass.
3. A snake slithered across the grass.
4. The clothes were strewn on the grass.
5. The donkey is eating grass on the field.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRASS
grass
 n.  narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
 n.  street names for marijuana
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)
1  A snake slithered across the grass.
2  I've walked along that path for so many years I know every blade of grass.
3  The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
4  The apple tree leaned to the field, dropping its flowers on the grass.
5  He spread-eagled his limbs while lying on the grass.
6  The bird flew up from the grass.
7  A white bird fluttered its wings on the grass.
8  There was a square with trees and grass in it in the center of the city.
9  If you are a winter grass, affection is the sun, warm your cold body.
10  This kind of grass is a common fodder for horses.
11  The grass was covered with frost in the early morning.
12  The donkey is eating grass on the field.
13  They had mowed down the long grass in the field.
14  The rain cleared the air, and the grass smelt fresh and sweet.
15  Not a flower nor even a blade of grass will grow in this desert.