How To Use Turf In A Sentence

Pesticides may adsorb onto plant materials such as litter in no-till or minimum-till fields, the bark of trees, or thatch in turf.
Pasture lands and meadow lands are often greatly improved by replowing and harrowing in order to break up the turf that forms and to admit air more freely into the soil. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition
We need to turf the Democratic party out.
Now stadium officials have decided to turf out the rye grass surface and lay a fresh pitch. The Sun
If you choose to returf, know that turf farms have minimum order quantities and delivery charges and may only sell to contractors.

The pub with the most atmosphere is tiny Turf Tavern, which you get to by following two long, creepy, almost unnavigable alleys off a winding back street.
In correct rural circles, having your lawn turfed is regarded in the same light as wearing made-up bow ties.
For three years or so the squares lay open, and their sacred turf was trodden by the feet of working-class children, a sight to make dividend-drawers gnash their false teeth.
In areas where wood was scarce, e.g. many of the Northern Isles, some buildings had stone or turf walls.
A plain surface of benty turf lay before him, bright in the moonlight, dangerous to cross, upon which a few sheep came and went. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Why have my blue lilyturf plants stopped flowering? The Sun
The much-needed cash injection means Astroturf pitches and multi-purpose sports and arts halls could be built at schools around the country.
Run-off from barnyards, cropland, feedlots, septic tanks, and intensively managed turf areas such as golf courses can introduce large quantities of organic matter and nutrients into a pond.
On school days the children s parents had to take turns bringing in turf for the school fire.
'Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves; or do they look turfy and flowery?' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
He told me of one disciplinary action where students had to carry timber in bare feet across an oval, which had a lot of bindi-eye in the turf (bindi-eye is a particularly unpleasant little prickle which blooms around October in these parts).
The Tasmanian Turf Club banned bookmakers and confined betting on the island to the on-course totalisator in 1897.
Once pastures and turf are well established, the spurrey usually cannot establish from seed due to competition.
Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
Autumn is the ideal time to sow new lawns and overseed old turf to revive it. The Sun
The report tells midwives and doctors to end the culture clashes and turf wars that put safety at risk. Times, Sunday Times
On the long, steep scarp between the iron age hillfort above and ploughed fields below are white signs carved into the turf.
If you don't stake out your turf in other domains, a competitor might grab the territory first.
The event is due to coincide with the Euro 2004 soccer tournament and will take place on the astro-turf at the centre on May 23.
If we can keep our unity, we can turf out of their seats those who have misgoverned the country.
He's serving his time in the prison of pop culture and we should all pay him a visit before they turf him out for probation.
The new track planned for Great Leighs is another nail in the coffin for turf horseracing in this country.
He also wept when he walked on to the hallowed turf. The Sun
Our pleasant duties over, we looked into the cheerful glow of the turf sods while I read aloud Thackeray's Peg of Limavady. Penelope's Irish Experiences
The romantic urban fantasy story line is fast-paced from the onset and never slows down once Karatos begins his assault on his turf on the lead couple. Before I Wake-Kathryn Smith « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Now is a good time to lay turf, but keep it moist and feed it. Times, Sunday Times
While original gangstas like NWA presented graphic dispatches from LA gang turf where few reporters were brave enough to tread, he has been sold as a GI Joe doll with real bullet holes.
In the month of September most of the turf and peat was harvested, as well as hay and silage, so most hay barns and sheds are full for the winter
PJ was the first to be ‘evicted’ for nibbling Helen's ears, Craig was turfed out for gnawing the cage, and Penny was thrown out for pinching food rations.
I would argue that artificial turf and big ballparks entered and exited the baseball world at about the same time.
Side above the mouth of a bold running Stream 12 yards wide, which we call turf Creek from the number of bogs & quanty of turf in its waters. this Creek runs thro a open The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
The ball was a deep sepia, veneered with dirt and turf and generational sweat—it was old, bunged up, it was bashed and tobacco-juiced and stained by natural processes and by the lives behind it, weather-spattered and charactered as a seafront house. Underworld
Now the gangs are back fighting turf wars and engaging in gun battles with police. Times, Sunday Times
The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources.
I do not suppose you will have any occasion to renovate the turf in any part of your park; but, if you should, the best way is to get a mixture of the seeds of several sorts of grasses, such as the fox-tail meadow grass (Alopecùrus praténsis), the sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxánthum odoràtum), the crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosùrus cristàtus), and other valuable kinds. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
'' Knowing we can beat the good teams and defending our turf is a good feeling. '' USATODAY.com - Scores
The estate is at the centre of a bitter turf war between rival drug gangs.
The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes.
Turf wars, the occasional hardhead who goes for the assault rifle when the raid team shows, bitterness over price hikes or debts owed. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
If he tops a shot in the fairway, he takes two or three angry swings into the turf.
He's another who handles a fast surface and a repeat of his creditable second to Lord Of The Turf at Galway will see him land this.
The area is turfed with crescent shaped borders planted with deep blue cineraria, white echiums and yellow genistas and other various bedding plants.
I have removed the debris and will need to returf the lawn, maybe in the spring. Times, Sunday Times
I suspect this remake, now satirising post-feminist America and suburban life itself, may raise more laughs here than on its home turf.
That shouldn't be a problem on today's straight course and he is nicely weighted on his best turf form. The Sun
The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
Walking over wet turf and surface soil while the soil beneath is frozen damages the soil structure. The Sun
The match took place at the R.S.I. ground, a lovely piece of turf maintained by the army malis, with a row of trees ringing the outfield.
The trees, which have been chopped down, but not uprooted, have been replaced by new turf.
Back on home turf, he has clearly decided to get on the front foot. Times, Sunday Times
Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers.
He currently is chairman of stipendiary stewards at the Western Australian Turf Club, a position he has held since 1989.
She claimed that ‘sacred, hallowed turf’ had been violated and desecrated with no concern for those who lost friends and colleagues in a war in the defence of their country.
But there's no doubt that rivalry between departments, turf issues and general distrust between colleagues jeopardise the progress of a company. Times, Sunday Times
All turf was brought home with horse car and creel.
Meanwhile, the big construction companies are trying to grow by making inroads into turf traditionally held by medium-size builders.
Then shade-tolerant turfgrasses, such as Kentucky bluegrass or hard fescue, can hold their own.
The turf was stacked and left for 18 months to rot down.
We're no strangers to the tactical alteration of addresses on home turf. Times, Sunday Times
And we don't need any more tinkering by the legislature, who should keep their turfy porky mitts out of things. Sound Politics: A modest proposal for transportation budgeting
The dark bay or brown horse annexed his final career start, winning an allowance race on the turf at Churchill Downs on June 22.
One of the raids was in Leyland Road, near Turf Moor, where there had been reports of heroin being dealt from the back door of a house.
A football league has grown up around the astroturf pitch next to the office and aerobics, boxercise and bodypump sessions are among the classes available at no extra charge.
The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
He raced outside his area to challenge Lee Reilly and was sent off after the home attacker was left on the turf.
One slide is wood, the other plastic, a third covered in fake turf. Times, Sunday Times
The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
Under a leafless mulberry tree, we sat on a turfed bench sharing a mug of steaming chocolate with snow cream. Exit the Actress
The complex has two grass pitches, two AstroTurf™ pitches and an astrodome containing another indoor pitch which is said to be too small to satisfy the FA rules.
A herd of goats was nibbling the turf around the base of the tower.
The boat was the main mode of conveyance for Achill islanders for more than a century and was used to transport goods, building materials and turf too and from the island.
There he worked the war horse upon the frozen turf renewing an old acquaintance with the heavy weight on his back. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
We are depending on turf for fuel and the work is not easy but people do not mind.
Although he hit his shot straight at the goalkeeper it slithered and stotted off limbs and the sodden turf before trundling over the line.
How vigorously will the local companies defend their turf?
A Soccerdome website boasts that all the pitches are made of ‘Field Turf’ synthetic pitches which are just like real grass but do not cause friction burns.
And let's not even begin to discuss astroturfing.
TAKAHASHI: Their turf is less about sand and surf than the dizzying mix of a new urban America. Asian Hip-Hop Group Finds Fans Among L.A. Latinos
Potassium chloride also has shown fungicidal properties in turf, wheat and other crops.
That shouldn't be a problem on today's straight course and he is nicely weighted on his best turf form. The Sun
For it is always easier for true natives to experience the excitement of other cultures on their home turf.
Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf runner-up Spook Express suffered a compound dislocation of her left fetlock joint near the finish of the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on November 25 and had to be euthanized.
But she stayed well and was one of the toughest horses to set hoof on turf. The Sun
Balgriffin was once more wrapped in its wintertime odour of sweetly burning turf, and the clothes on the line never dried. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
The main frontier comprises a stone foundation about 4.3m wide on which stood a turf bank up to 3m high, fronted by a berm and a ditch normally about 12m wide and 3m deep.
Our self-mocking domestic equivalent to America's invincible locomotive is the platoon of lawnmowers that shaved the Astroturf in the stadium during the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.
the hallowed turf of Wembley, etc.
Rusted metal, bits of concrete and cinder block, patches of burnt, weedy turf.
According to Stephen Hart, the coach of the men's national team, the dealbreaker was the artificial turf at BC Place and in Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta. NYT > Home Page
In the pleasaunce of Armine, at the termination of a long turfen avenue of purple beeches, there was a turreted gate, flanked by round towers, intended by Sir Ferdinand for one of the principal entrances of his castle. Henrietta Temple A Love Story
During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady.
a turf war erupted between street gangs
They shuffled slowly down the turf towards the cliff's edge.
Then St. Lusson (a sword in one hand and "crumbling turf in the other") cried to his French followers who applauded his sentences, to the savages who could not understand, to the rapids which would not heed, and to the forests which have long forgotten the vibrations of his voice, the words in French to which these words in English correspond: The French in the Heart of America
The island had no trees and winter fuel was mainly turf, cut from a bog on the mainland.
Grant's gritty man-of-the-match performance against Crewe on Saturday was the perfect answer to criticism from manager Stan Ternent and the knockers in the Turf Moor stands.
That is hallowed nationalist turf. Times, Sunday Times
Now the turf fights were not the mere symbolism over who dwelt on what block. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
a turf of grass of the varieties known as gramma, buffalo, and mezquite; and sometimes the traveller encounters a region where shallow ponds of different sizes stud the plain -- a few being permanent, and surrounded by sedge. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
Sixty pigs, which Landis moves frequently to provide them with fresh turf, root around in a wide lot.
How softly the turf had carpeted the untraveled avenue--he could no longer feel the roadway beneath his feet!
Although for much of the time the various teams within the city operated in tandem, respecting each other's territory, there were sporadic turf wars characterised by tit-for-tat shootings, with kneecappings a popular form of warning or 'frightener'. Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover
If you have cool season turf, you can reseed it now.
The school will use the money to fund an Astroturf pitch for five-a-side football, hockey, basketball, netball and other sports.
The garden will be professionally landscaped, which is either notin the specification, or will be to a far higher standard than the basic turf normally provided. Archive 2006-02-01
And fescue turf can always be reseeded this fall.
It's not gang turf warfare over drugs, prostitution, extortion or anything like that.
At 4.30 pm, when the referee squelched across the sodden turf, the odds seemed to be on the match being postponed because of the underfoot conditions.
A snig of the red blade severed the thong; and the Indian's body sliding down from the withers of the horse, fell with a dull dead sound upon the turf. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
Beneath the shallow turf line the loose stoneless silt loam contained slight iron staining and abundant molluscs.
In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing, but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf.
This research was intent to establish a transgenic system of turf grass ' rye grass ' with high efficiency and endow it with stress tolerance ability.
The island is only a mile in circumference, but each corner brings a new wilderness - from sheltered, bouncing turf to wuthering plains, and a new sense of serenity and calm.
May 25, 2010 at 2:39 pm wy is plurul ub turf turvez but singul ub curvez iz nawt curf? Shelf life? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
On major occasions like a leadership election, Cabinet reshuffles, ministerial resignations, or the Budgets, the strip of turf opposite Parliament on College Green resembles a crowded marketplace.
New computer-generated images showed how archery events staged on the hallowed turf at Lord's, equestrian events in Greenwich Park and the purpose-built whitewater canoeing course at Lee Valley will look next summer. Olympic Games organisers and police launch crackdown on ticket touts
The transatlantic market is highly competitive, and larger airlines, defending what they call their turf, added flights to some of London's alternate airports. Eos Airlines Files for Bankruptcy,
Smyth, pulled the "Distinguished Gentleman" move, and ran where it might have seemed to the unattentive voter that he was the incumbant Taking on Murray Smith's old turf. More fun with numbers...
This intricate web of departments and agencies, massively staffed, is technically controlled by the president, but often seems to control him, whether through Cabinet brawls of clashing egos or interagency turf wars -- a specialty in the Bush years, particularly during the first-term prelude to Iraq, when ideological differences pitted Donald Rumsfeld and his hawks at Defense against Colin Powell's diplomats at State, with Condoleezza Rice, in her small redoubt at the National Security Council, squeezed out altogether. Powell's Books: Overview
the president's resignation was the result of a turf war with the board of directors
The Greeks and Romans were not acquainted with the employment of peat as fuel, but it appears from a curious passage which I have already cited from Pliny, N. H., book xvi., chap. 1, that the inhabitants of the North Sea coast used what is called kneaded turf in his time. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 01 (historical)
This done, he drew out his bowie-knife, and with the blade "crowed" a hole into the turf, about a foot deep, and ten inches or a foot in diameter. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
In this way, video game turfs serve to mark boundaries and borders for methods of exploration and play.
Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving centre of service industries.
Her mouth full of pistachio fondant, she craned her neck to look at his books: Rafael Sabatini, The Sea Hawk, Nat Gould, Wizard of the Turf. THE GOLDEN LION
On reaching the churchyard and turning the corner towards the spot as usual, she was surprised to perceive another woman, also apparently a respectable widow, and with a tiny boy by her side, bending over Clark's turf, and spudding up with the point of her umbrella some ivy-roots that A Changed Man; and other tales
This need to deliver exceptionally high quality audio was the rationale behind the Selangor Turf Club's recent purchase of a Jünger Audio d06 Level Magic processor, a two channel digital non destructive loudness normaliser that provides high quality, automatic control of loudness on any incoming source, regardless of its input level. UK Regional Film and Television News
Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch.
Eleanor sat on the turfen table by the sick man; and the woman began her story. The Drummer's Coat
The game was fast, the play spirited and strong and neither side was prepared to give an inch of turf unchallenged.
These old apple-trees make very charming bits of the world in October; the leaves cling to them later than to the other trees, and the turf keeps short and green underneath; and in this grass, which was frosty in the morning, and has not quite dried yet, you can find some cold little cider apples, with one side knurly, and one shiny bright red or yellow cheek. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
Sea coast used what is called kneaded turf in his time. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
Some were sent out for a hack, as Motion, an Englishman, calls a jog through the wooded trails and open fields; others went to the turf course. NYT > Global Home
He caught the racing bug from his brother, a dentist, who was a keen follower of the turf.
She was kneeling down in the chimney-corner, before two pieces of turf laid together with the heather inwards, blowing at the red-hot ashes with her breath till the turves flamed. Wessex Tales
The floor was of concrete, lime and sand; on the open hearth -- pronounced 'airth' -- sods of turf cut from the moor and oak branches were smouldering under the chimney crook. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
Lord Menteith as being the lightest and most fairy figure that ever trode the turf by moonlight. A Legend of Montrose
springy turf
Soda bread or cakes were baked in the pot oven over the dying embers of the fire and covered with a few sods of burning turf.
Over the past few years, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of third-generation artificial turf fields for both training and match play.
Bare patches can either be reseeded or returfed.
Scholars engaged in this battle argue that they are not only protecting their academic turf, but preserving the life of their discipline.
She had balked, not stupid enough to go to his turf, alone, so he could do her bodily harm.
He has won riding titles at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, and River Downs.
Canero, an adventurous presence on the left flank, caught his studs in the turf and was stretchered off.
The others were "Cottonton," as the turfman called them. Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course
They descended from the woods to the margin of the stream by a flight of turfen steps, Coningsby holding Edith's hand as he guided her progress. Coningsby
Henry cuts in from the left, lets his marker sprawl on the turf and slams the ball past Stiel.
The estate is at the centre of a bitter turf war between rival drug gangs.
Playing on natural grass instead of artificial turf helped him stay healthy.
The gymnastics team won the championship on home turf.
Bossard says there are an almost unlimited number of patterns that can be cut into the turf - rows, diamonds, checkerboards, stars, numbers.
But you can also settle happily for the sublime views that you have from this generously turf Ed upland.
Red herring are fish which have been first soaked in brine with saltpetre added, then hung up to dry before being subjected to a heavy smoking - ideally over oak, beech, and turf.
It's "artificial grass roots" letter writing - astroturfing.
New lawns can be sown or turfed this month but leave it until autumn once June comes around.
The oval's surface has been returfed and a new drainage system installed to make the ground suitable for international sport.
He last raced in an allowance over the turf at Saratoga Race Course on July 24, finishing seventh of ten runners.
Willmot said the turf course at Lone Star, which will host the Cup for the first time, doesn't fit the style European horsemen prefer.
Friday night, local director Lynn Shelton — also treading on male turf (the minimalist mumblecore genre, which is dominated by pointy-headed male directors) — won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes award for her lo-fi drama Humpday. Local Filmmaker Lynn Shelton Wins Trophy of Her Own « PubliCola
Directly to my left, a rectangular plantation almost ready for harvest stretches to the next hollow like a roll of teased Astroturf.
And whilst all the talk may have been of forwards, the base for victory was built further down the Newbridge turf.
Now we can't use turf for our fire, it has to be oil.
And the congregation sat partly clustered on the slope below, and partly among the idolatrous monoliths and on the turfy soil of the Ring itself. Lay Morals
The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it.
There were eyes on him: Herdmaster Pastempeh-keph, K'turfookeph, Fookerteh, a female he didn't know, Breaker Raztupisp-minz, and a human Chintithpit-mang recognized. I Don’t Understand ?
Each knew the other's gifts, each took care not to trespass on the other person's turf.
We've also come to realise what an unbelievably thankless task it is to maintain the turf on a football pitch. Times, Sunday Times
In a symbolic gesture, friends of the victims joined with police officers, Logan City Councillors and emergency services personnel to help Tau Taufu returf the block where he lost five family members, including his wife. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The cures include starting the clubhead back low to the turf on a gentle curve.
In the meantime, there is work to do, turf to reseed and leaks to mend. Times, Sunday Times
During the cold weather each student was expected to have a sod of turf for the iron stove in the school.
No longer content with ruling the wrestling world, McMahon embarked on a new ‘turf war,’ this time on the gridiron.
There's a powerful sense of entropy, particularly when you see nature struggling to reclaim an artificial area as its turf.
Gray struck in the final minute at Turf Moor with a poacher's finish to wrap up the seventh away win and send City soaring three places to 15th.
Twelve years later, Kennelly joined the Turf Club as handicapper for flat racing; 12 years after that, he got the call from Hong Kong.
The trees, which have been chopped down, but not uprooted, have been replaced by new turf.
An area of soggy, muddy turf around three metres from the stumps at one end caused the game to be called off. The Sun
I try to take a break next door in one of Rusco garden furniture's comfy rope hammocks, but the saleslady sees I'm way too snug and turfs me out sharpish.
The surface of the floodlit, full size, all-weather pitch, will be ‘field turf’, which is used on training pitches at Leeds United.
By the time they moved in the gardens had been turfed and paved, and were framed with low open railings.
They are found carved in rock, ceramics, clay tablets, mosaics, manuscripts, stone patterns, turf, hedges, and cathedral pavements.
He was concerned that people were being turfed out without their legal entitlements.
In Shahid's days there were more attacks and attempts on goals because of fast and true synthetic turf.
Has Arsene been pragmatic/cowardly, or have Milan been cynical in knackering/replacing the turf on the wings according to ITV. AC Milan 4-0 Arsenal – as it happened | Barry Glendenning
Ballintrillick, who are the reigning champions, will be on home turf for the clash.
We felt it to the full; yet none the less, but rather the more, could we feel at the same time the delicate and ethereal beauty of the fringed gentianella and the pale Alpine lilies scattered on the short turf beside us. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
And thus, kneeling upon the flower-sprent turf hand in hand and with heads reverently bowed, they were wed, while the six outlaws stared in silent awe and the meek ass cropped the grass busily. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
We have also started marking out a new design in what will become the flower garden, and some of the turf has already been lifted.
The kieves that held the fermented barley were placed underground and carefully covered with turf, for fear of detection.
When my mother saw how spindly I was, she couldn't wait to turf me out.
Once in the door you'll be straight over to the hearth, emptying ashes and raking dead coals, scooping up briquettes of turf with a pair of tongs and stacking them up.
Whoever correctly guesses the most winning teams by the end of the regular season will snag an incredible pize - an over-the-top Bowl party to watch the ultimate football showdown on your own turf on February 6, 2011. WTSP.com 10 News Local News
Turf wars are inevitable when two departments are merged.

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