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Out back, there’s a multilevel pool, lounge area, fire pit, outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven, and grassy lawn.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The drain was discovered during the dig in a grassy open space at the former hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
It didn’t take long to find a promising spot along the grassy banks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Last week, encampments no longer occupied the grassy area around the tennis courts on La Brea Avenue or the sidewalks along the nearby Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
We pass through thickly wooded areas and farmland until eventually the bus pulls off onto a wide grassy field.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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
She rode up and down the canyons and over the higher, grassier ridges, to watch the cattle on their summer range and keep them from straying.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
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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