old sod

Example Sentences

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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

Can the stubborn old sod really be expected to reinvent himself?

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2017

Perhaps the Chartist movement may have ripped up the old sod and prepared the soil for the later peaceful growth; but in itself it accomplished nothing for which it was undertaken.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10 European Leaders by Lord, John