Example Sentences

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By turfing the British out, Gálvez denied them a port in the Gulf of Mexico.

From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019

"Haywards Heath is a prime location for turfing you off the train and leaving you stranded with hundreds of people."

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2016

All the Australian tyro cared about was that he possessed the belief and the talent to prolong "the best week of my life" by turfing Nadal out of the grasscourt major.

From Reuters • Jul. 1, 2014

“We’re not a turfing group for Google’s competitors.”

From Forbes • Sep. 21, 2011

What pleasure have we taken in planting and pulling up, digging and scattering, watering and draining, turfing and gravelling!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas