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sod

[sod] / sɒd /




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There’s a new, $2 billion plus stadium, which has been mocked for Chia Pet sod, neck-twisting viewing angles and a wee scoreboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Novack and Aggrey, who are both 35, installed the sod in February 2023 with the help of landscapers Carlos Díaz and Miguel Garcia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

For this enormous game, new grass was specially sourced from a nearby sod farm.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2025

Next to her bed she had built a low table of sod on which to put her clothes when she slept.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

They're measuring yardages from various positions on the freshly re-graded and sodded teeing area, which is almost as big as our entire golf course:

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 9, 2016

It was then sodded for a third time in four months before the start of the regular season in an effort to find the right grass and soil combination that would stay rooted.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2015

His hands have graded, sodded and seeded playing fields, and they’ve shown a group of scrappy wrestlers how to push their bodies beyond preconceived limitations.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2015

She has seeded and sodded estates for the likes of David Geffen, Stavros Niarchos and Rupert Murdoch, and her haute habitats dot townhouse backyards and prewar rooftops from the Village to Park Avenue.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2014

The wheels of heavily loaded wagons sank deep into the mud and left gaping lacerations, adding to the list of wounds to be filled, smoothed, and sodded.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“Yeah, it seems trivial to have members of the National Guard, you know, sodding the National Mall. But you also have to look at this in context,” she said.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2025

Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses."

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

The plaintive look on ET’s face as he gazes at Elliot could mean “I’ve missed you” or he may just be thinking: “I didn’t fly halfway across the universe to watch Bing sodding Crosby.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2019

It’s considered a nuisance or a weed when it pops up in luscious suburban lawns, long the bane of gardeners and homeowners sodding, sprinkling and nurturing the greenest of grasses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018

“This path must be laid out like a sodding maze,” said Alice.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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