tussocky

How to use tussocky in a sentence

• Far away the coast reached out, and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink to a level with the beach.

  Sons and Lovers | David Herbert Lawrence

• Here and there on very steep hillsides, wiry, tussocky grass might be growing instead of forest or peat.

  The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot

• The white grass was tussocky and long, and the trail here and there had been churned into quagmire.

  Masters of the Wheat-Lands | Harold Bindloss

• From the sea to the Sierra Nevada stretch the pampas, all tussocky grass, thorn, guanacos and mirages.

  Through the Heart of Patagonia | H. Hesketh Prichard

• At the very bottom, almost on a level with the tussocky surface of the marsh, a barrel lay on its side, its depth leading inward.

  Dorothy Dixon and the Mystery Plane | Dorothy Wayne