How to Use grassy in a Sentence

grassy

adjective
  • Laboy drove onto a grassy area, but reached a dead end.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • It was later found in a grassy area with the trunk and hood open.
    — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • On a grassy patch just ahead, a tusker emerged from the jungle fringe.
    — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The group spent the night sleeping in a grassy patch next to the beach.
    — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • On the nose, the whiskey is light and grassy, with a bit of fruit and fresh wood.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 12 June 2022
  • If there is a need for a grassy area in your yard, then by all means have that.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
  • Bright reds, sky blues and grassy green shades are now part of the new branding.
    — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • More than six miles of trails wend their way through grassy fields and rolling woodlands.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The group is concerned about the grassy field where the club’s cabaret room once stood.
    — Julia Fair, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Snipped chives over the top add a fresh grassy element.
    — Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • Heaps of last summer’s grassy sedge lay withered around us.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Just hundreds of sheep clinging to the grassy slopes.
    — Lori Rackl, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • The widow’s house has become our grassy knoll.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The car went through the guardrail and came to stop on the grassy median.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2023
  • After roll call, the cadets were moved to a grassy area under a tree.
    — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a large, grassy area off to the back side of the property.
    — Mary Grace Metheny, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Concrete roads poured over the grassy hides of once-mighty creatures.
    — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
  • Much of it was open and grassy and studded with rocks, its soil fragile.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The next area that’s likely to come is going to be sort of the grassy area.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • The new space includes a stage, a grassy knoll and parking spots for food trucks.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The hummus is smooth and nutty, topped with herbs and a bright, grassy olive oil.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The grassy island with its sheer rocky cliffs jutted from the sea, not a tree in sight.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Pataky, in the other video, leads a small horse through a grassy field as one of the kids ride along.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 28 July 2021
  • Two men then walked up to the grassy area where the mower was parked behind a locked fence.
    — James Taylor, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Pack a picnic lunch, some towels, and a chair to lounge on the grassy lawns along the shore.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2022
  • The slipped under the ride’s safety bar and fell into a grassy area.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The footage shows the pair inside a convenience store and on a grassy area.
    — Fox News, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Outside, grassy lawns and patios fill the space between the two homes.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Open grassy fields can quickly go up in flames and threaten nearby homes.
    — Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Folks splayed out on blankets across the grassy lawns, fanned themselves and cooled off with cold beers.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025

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