sod

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In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

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

From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026

Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2025

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

She had windproofed it by sealing the sod bricks with mud from the pond at her door, and she had made it beautiful by spreading her caribou ground cloth on the floor.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George