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Example sentences for "grassy"

Lexicographically close words:
grassie; grassland; grasslands; grassless; grasslike; grat; grata; grate; grated; grateful
  1. There on that grassy plot that might have been a familiar dooryard of his early days, he was playing alone, gone back to childhood.

  2. At the roadside, in a little open, grassy space where once evidently a cabin had stood, knelt the figure of a gaunt old man.

  3. From Khariji we proceeded through low grassy hills, much like the South Downs, and over the low but very rough Pasbandi Pass into an irrigated valley in which is the village of Shalamzar.

  4. So stunning was the concussion that the pugilist himself recoiled from it across the grassy ring.

  5. They were standing facing one another in a grassy ring intersected by the path at the outlet of the wood.

  6. There was nothing on earth to draw his eye, or to distract his mind, for the grassy plain below was as void from month to month as the heaven above.

  7. Then in noisy, laughing, gesticulating crowds they gathered in their thousands round the grassy arena where the sports were to be held.

  8. The building which was their destination was a commonplace white-washed structure, with straggling stables and out-houses, standing in a grassy hollow which sloped down from the edge of the chalk cliffs.

  9. In this grassy strip the fox lay and lurked, quite flat, and the hare bounded lightly over the heather.

  10. On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.

  11. Our well was sunk in the broad sandy bottom of the arroyo, in the midst of a narrow and delectably grassy valley between two foot-hills.

  12. Behind one of these rocks there opened out a grassy plot a few yards square, and beyond the grass a little lifted platform of rock against a sheer cliff.

  13. Tired with their sport, they lay upon the grassy sward, luxuriating in the warm sun.

  14. The trail led through the big firs and dipped into a little grassy valley set round with thickets on every side.

  15. Irregularly strewn upon the grassy plain in the valley bottom some two dozen teepees marked the Piegan summer headquarters.

  16. It stands sequestered in a little leafy and grassy space of its own, with a wall hardly overlooked on one side by low stone cottages, the immemorial homes of rheumatism and influenza.

  17. All that grassy and shady neighborhood seemed a public promenade, where on a Sunday one could see the lower middle classes in their best and brightest, and it had for all its own the endearing and bewitching name of Ings.

  18. Our upper rooms looked on a pretty grassy garden space behind, where there was sun when there was sun, and in front on the fine old brick dwellings of a most personable street, with a sentiment of bygone fashion.

  19. I always talked with the lower classes when I could, perhaps because I felt myself near them in my unworthy way, and one evening in a grassy lane I made the acquaintance of a friendly man letting his horse browse the wayside turf.

  20. On leaving them we had a steep climb over grassy slopes, where the drizzling rain now changed to snow, and for the rest of the day it fell steadily.

  21. Here and there were grassy patches with bubbling springs of crystal clearness.

  22. Again we were fortunate in finding a good camping ground, better even than the first, for the floor of this shelf was grassy and soft, and as we were looking South across the West Rongbuk Glacier we had the sun late as well as early.

  23. After riding for a couple of miles over a nice grassy turf we came to Lumeh.

  24. This was the place where I had met the yak herds two months before when they were pasturing their yaks on the grassy uplands.

  25. The villagers soon had three tents pitched for us on a grassy field between the village and the river; cushions, cooking pots and fuel were also brought out for us.

  26. Opposite this ice cavern we had a steep climb for 500 feet, and found ourselves among pleasant grassy meadows, after a few miles of which we came to a place called Pethang Ringmo, where we found some yak herds living.

  27. Below this glacier the valley became quite flat with grassy meadows and patches of forest dotted about the pastures--a very unusual type of valley for the Himalayas.

  28. Gnatong, where we were to spend the night, was a very small and rather dirty village lying in a hollow and surrounded by grassy hills.

  29. There was plenty of water here for irrigation purposes, and some fine grassy fields on which many ponies were grazing.

  30. The footing being established, Joshua drew up in a grassy spot near some scrub oaks.

  31. By noon we were up amid the rounded grassy hills of the Sisseton Reservation where only the coyote ranged and the Sioux made residence.

  32. It suggested shining mountains, and grassy vales, swarming with bear and elk.

  33. One Sunday afternoon as I was riding over to the Grove, I met Burton plodding homeward along the grassy lane, walking with hanging head and sagging shoulders.

  34. I answered the splendid challenge of the loitering crane, and studied the ground sparrow building her grassy nest.

  35. A few houses scattered about, and everywhere tents, bush wickeups and rude shelters of every description dotting the grassy plain.

  36. The dewy freshness of the morning shimmers on every bough and grassy hillock.

  37. Rearward, the grassy slope was populous with little groups of men searching for the wounded.

  38. There were grassy banks and most delightful trees.

  39. It wound in the shade of thickets of fine trees, then through rank growths of bushes with revealed and fantastic roots, then through a grassy space which had all the beauty of a neglected orchard.

  40. Nevertheless, as a military spectacle, these gatherings and manoeuvres on the grassy bank here, were effective; they were always anticipated with pleasure and contemplated with satisfaction.

  41. But we can readily imagine the Rangers establishing themselves under canvas on the grassy glade where formerly stood the old French trading-post.

  42. They walked some distance apart from the host of shipmen, and took their stand on a grassy knoll overlooking the opposing armies.

  43. And at last Olaf came out and ran swiftly backward and forward on the grassy level until he was dry.

  44. The cliffs stood out white as snow against the gray autumn sky, and where the line of the headland dipped the grassy slopes of a fertile valley could be seen dotted over with browsing sheep.

  45. When he got his feet upon the rocks he climbed up to a grassy knoll and sat there watching the burning ship.

  46. A hind might as well lay her new-born young in the lair of a lion, and then go off to feed in the forest or in some grassy dell.

  47. One of the streams, the Lonzua, drives a smooth body of water into the Lake fifty yards broad and ten fathoms deep, bearing on its surface duckweed and grassy islands.

  48. Some three miles of grassy plains abreast of Moero were the deepest parts, except the banks of Luao.

  49. The grassy sward was so lifted up that it was separated into patches or tufts, and if the foot missed the row of tufts of this wiry grass which formed the native path, down one plumped up to the thigh in slush.

  50. Here and there are stunted growths of sage, cactus and prickly pear, or a giant fir-tree springs from a grassy cleft in the rocks.

  51. It was soon no more than a little rut scarcely visible in the grassy slope.

  52. I made myself comfortable on a grassy slope and proceeded to take the engine down.

  53. Then would come a short detour over a gap in the bank, with the grassy slope strewn with branches and small tree-trunks to prevent the unfortunate vehicle sinking in and thus permanently blocking all progress that way.

  54. We halted for a day at one of these grassy spots, and I went with Tiger early from camp to procure meat, when a flock of mountain sheep drew us farther into the mountains.

  55. We gained a deal of ground down hill and through the grassy valley, and reached the wall before the stallion was at the top of it.

  56. I had found, in a coppice close to the stream, a small grassy clearing, where Czar was always comfortable.

  57. I must reach a knoll where the grass was shorter, and without reflecting I gave Czar the spurs and his head, and flew in rivalry of the storm-wind over the grassy plains before me.

  58. You are obliged to wind between these clumps till you reach a broad open grassy clearing, which extends between these thickets and the high woods on Mustang Creek.

  59. Ere long, however, the path grew broader, and ran over a grassy plateau, whence we could look back at the dangerous point and into the dark abyss.

  60. I continued my journey over the grassy plateau.

  61. We descended the hill, and in an hour reached the grassy damp bottom, where we remounted and shortly after pulled up on the bank of a large river whose other side was bordered by a thick wood.

  62. At this juncture the great Mohawk lay with a considerable body of warriors at Grassy Brook.

  63. Now came the main effort of the enterprise; the steep, grassy hillside had to be climbed.

  64. My course led across the head of a gorge, the sides of which were steep, grassy slopes, interspersed with patches of moraine.

  65. Their course lay through an undulating, grassy country thickly dotted over with little villages composed of beehive-shaped huts, among which numbers of naked children were playing.

  66. The homestead stood on the steep south slope of a valley through which a stream ran between fringes of timber rooted in rich, fern-bearing soil, and commanded a grand view of interspersed forest and grassy slopes.

  67. It was sundown when the drivers called a halt at a grassy glade on the bank of a clear stream which was fringed with mimosa and acacia trees.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grassy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grassy places; grassy plain