old sod

Example Sentences

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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

Dominic Fifield: The constant chopping and changing of kick-off times, which admittedly makes me sound like a grumpy old sod.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2017

Golodoff, 6 at the time, recalled running for the shelter of an old sod building as the Imperial troops stormed into the town.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2014

I mind, when I was a little fellow in the old sod, my mother gathering wild flowers from the hedges and putting them all round the ribbon of my straw hat.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John