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At peak times on Saturday, just before sunset, the narrow two-way street to Duryea’s is filled with cars as high-heeled and preppy patrons walk along the sloped grassy shoulder of the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In addition to the anti-ball playing ordinance, the neighbors were accused of violating an ordinance prohibiting structures on sidewalks or grassy strips next to curbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Since then, however, she had been "encouraged" by initiatives such as No Mow May, which encourages people to let grassy areas grow wild, increasing the places for butterflies to feed and breed.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
After the sessions, caravans of cars made their way down a narrow road to a grassy stretch of family land nearby for food, music and games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
With his other hand, Ben pushes aside leafy branches blocking our gravel path, and we step into a grassy clearing.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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The former is grown underground and flaunts a more bitter and sweeter flavor profile, while the latter is grown above ground and is grassier in taste.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
As one example, deforestation in one tropical region might turn a rainforest into a "savanna-type system," which is a drier, grassier ecosystem with far fewer trees.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
In Lagos, lush, green lemongrass bushes, grassier sisters of the yellow lemongrass stalks, grow locally.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2022
Still, make sure it’s one you like the taste of, especially for grassier extra-virgin oils.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021
II Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces— We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, Deep into grassier ditches.
From Poems by Wilfred Owen
Sunny busied himself laying out the utensils on the grassiest spot he could find.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
The sunset gave a deeper mellowness to the standing crops, and in the grassiest corner of the wayside villages the young men and maidens were dancing like the figures in vignette illustrations of classic poets.
From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various
Naturally, it has developed to the largest degree and size in those animals which have lived upon the bulkiest and grassiest of foods, the so-called Herbivora, or grass-eaters.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
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