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grassy

[gras-ee, grah-see] / ˈgræs i, ˈgrɑ si /


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We spent hours talking, eventually walking to a pizza joint then back to a grassy spot by the water.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

ALEDO, Texas—The vault lies inside a grassy hill, next to the rolling Texas prairie.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

"They like the nice grassy slopes and the burrows have already been dug out for them by rabbits and Manx shearwaters, which is our star bird on the island."

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

Christensen led Lai, Woods and me to the top of a grassy hill.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

They were glad to be close to fire, sleeping on soft grassy earth, under leafy sky, and best of all, near water.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The former is grown underground and flaunts a more bitter and sweeter flavor profile, while the latter is grown above ground and is grassier in taste.

From Salon May 14, 2025

As one example, deforestation in one tropical region might turn a rainforest into a "savanna-type system," which is a drier, grassier ecosystem with far fewer trees.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2023

In Lagos, lush, green lemongrass bushes, grassier sisters of the yellow lemongrass stalks, grow locally.

From New York Times Jan. 21, 2022

Still, make sure it’s one you like the taste of, especially for grassier extra-virgin oils.

From Washington Post Nov. 15, 2021

II Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces— We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches.

From Poems by Wilfred Owen

Naturally, it has developed to the largest degree and size in those animals which have lived upon the bulkiest and grassiest of foods, the so-called Herbivora, or grass-eaters.

From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

Sunny busied himself laying out the utensils on the grassiest spot he could find.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum

The sunset gave a deeper mellowness to the standing crops, and in the grassiest corner of the wayside villages the young men and maidens were dancing like the figures in vignette illustrations of classic poets.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various




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