greensward
Example Sentences
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It was to be a gathering space for all people — an open greensward, connecting the Capitol to the Washington Monument.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
Houston’s, or a solitary elder’s transition to a cemetery’s greensward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
As he passed the luminous greensward of Keble College’s cricket field, players in their whites could be seen throwing up their arms as a wicket was taken.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
The normally nocturnal animals cantered across the greensward and into the thick woods on the perimeter.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 31, 2018
They stood not far from the Citadel-gate, in the sixth circle, nigh to its southward wall, and about them was a garden and a greensward with trees, the only such place in the City.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
