old sod

Example Sentences

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But the reception doesn’t compare with the overwhelming adoration he’s getting here in the old sod.

From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2023

In 2006, he purchased 1,800 acres of property to develop as a luxury golf resort in Scotland, the old sod, his mother’s birthplace.

From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2019

First, I scraped off the old sod, most of it the color of urine, in hopes of installing a new front yard the gophers could be proud of.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2018

I remember watching him thinking, you crafty old sod, you make it look so easy.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2017

I tell you what, girls'—she sat up with sudden energy—'I'm going to get my mother out of that old sod house where she's lived so many years.

From My Antonia by Cather, Willa Sibert