sod

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

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

USC’s new baseball stadium isn’t slated to open to the public until early 2026, but the Trojans began practicing here on the field in February, as soon as the sod had set.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025

It was deserted—the outposts were only active in the spring—and little more than a round lodge made of bone, sod, and animal skins.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Last year’s winners included an in-ground pool that had been filled with soil and sodded with grass to hide its existence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2017

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

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 is telling that several of Game of Thrones’s most recognisable goodies – Jon, Daenerys, Samwell sodding Tarly – are missing from this list.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 10, 2019

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

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

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