sod

New sod is brought in as many as a dozen times a year, and the field is ready for use within three to four days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Grand Detour, Ill.: John Deere’s “self-polishing” steel blade allowed settlers to slice through the sticky Midwest sod, unlocking the agricultural potential of the American heartland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

For this enormous game, new grass was specially sourced from a nearby sod farm.

From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026

Further down the street, another tree had been uprooted so forcefully that it also pulled up a big corner of sod from a lawn.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024

When teachers brought us to the sod house in Oklahoma and told us it was ninety-eight years old, I asked why they’d made a museum out of it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

They're measuring yardages from various positions on the freshly re-graded and sodded teeing area, which is almost as big as our entire golf course:

From Golf Digest ● Jul. 9, 2016

It was then sodded for a third time in four months before the start of the regular season in an effort to find the right grass and soil combination that would stay rooted.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2015

His hands have graded, sodded and seeded playing fields, and they’ve shown a group of scrappy wrestlers how to push their bodies beyond preconceived limitations.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2015

Two of the putting surfaces had to be entirely replaced by sod just a week ago — the 10th green had to be sodded twice — and the other greens were ragged.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2013

So we merely dress up and then trail down the stairs and out across the newly sodded front lawn, our shawls dragging behind us, uncertain what’s supposed to happen next.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

“Yeah, it seems trivial to have members of the National Guard, you know, sodding the National Mall. But you also have to look at this in context,” she said.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2025

Michael described himself as a "very awkward, slightly porky, very strange-looking bloke" who walked into his first day of school with a mop of curly hair and wearing "sodding great big window-frame glasses."

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

It’s considered a nuisance or a weed when it pops up in luscious suburban lawns, long the bane of gardeners and homeowners sodding, sprinkling and nurturing the greenest of grasses.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018

“We worked on several projects that were funded by Publix, including an herb/vegetable garden for the culinary program, beautification of common grounds and sodding, and landscaping a new yoga/meditation area for the students,” she said.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2018

“This path must be laid out like a sodding maze,” said Alice.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman