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grass

[ UK /ɡɹˈɑːs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹæs/ ]
VERB
  1. shoot down, of birds
  2. cover with grass
  3. cover with grass
    The owners decided to grass their property
  4. feed with grass
  5. spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
  6. give away information about somebody
    He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
NOUN
  1. a police informer who implicates many people
  2. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
  3. narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
  4. street names for marijuana

How To Use grass In A Sentence

  • If you are lucky enough to have a grassy paddock, it's worth the effort to get a couple of horses or a flock of sheep standing in just the right place.
  • I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each flat-roofed block is planted with sedum grass (that can absorb 70% of water run-off) and clad in slatted larch wood.
  • In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
  • Once you got into the stadium, there were no seats, only grassy banks.
  • There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
  • Botanical species in this ancient ecosystem included sagebrush, bluegrass, sedges, and herbs.
  • He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts. Contributor: Tom Van Devender
  • There is a fine square here called Madison, in the centre of which trees rise from fountain-watered grass, and statued figures of people who were men in their day and did things, palatial buildings, dignifying commerce, form the square. Impressions of a War Correspondent
  • There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
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