mowing
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Touch some grass: From the archives: Ben Mathis-Lilley examines the pleasures and benefits of getting out and mowing the lawn.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
In case you’ve forgotten, mowing the lawn was central to Boehner’s everyman image when he was in office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
For the tourists' benefit, Vlkolinec puts on traditional craft demonstrations, from sewing folk costumes and gingerbread decorating to mowing and haymaking.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
"I counsel people to wear hearing protection when they're mowing grass instead of listening to music through earbuds," Price said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
She said it like it was a decision, like he’d been mowing the lawn that day and thought, I think I'll fall down dead now.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
The outfield grass is a cow’s or pro golfer’s dream– lush, smooth, preternaturally green, with crisscross stripes laid down by artisanal mowings.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016
I have eaten grass mowings regularly for over three years, and off many lawns.
From Time Magazine Archive
He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities of rose petals; with uncooked oats.
From Time Magazine Archive
A goodly sight, too, were the broad mowings stirring gently with the sweep of the western breeze.
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
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