How to Use turf in a Sentence

turf

1 of 2 noun
  • The team played on home turf.
  • Synthetic turf was installed in the playing field instead of grass.
  • This is a move onto their turf.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • The pest leaves behind dead turf.
    — Julia Falcon, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Mowing at the wrong time can be hard on turf.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Mowing at the wrong time can be hard on turf.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
  • Which field hockey turf shoes are best?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Paideia is changing its fields from grass to turf.
    — Jon-David Regis, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • And to do it here on the home turf in the States?
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Therefore, grass that is not mowed is not turf.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Therefore, grass that is not mowed is not turf.
    — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • What are the best field hockey turf shoes to buy?
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • But this week, the spotlight is on its home turf.
    — Christopher Derose, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • So be a dear, search turf here For garbage and trash abound.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That's the home turf for Mercedes.
    — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The company is on the move on its home turf, too.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
  • Those dollars were spent under the brand-new turf.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Summer heat and drought can take their toll on young turf areas.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The topic of turf and grass has been going on for quite some time.
    — Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
  • It can be used as turf replacement and can be mowed and walked on.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Does any of that step on the WGA’s turf?
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The adult moths, which are gray and 1 ½-inch wide, aren’t a turf issue.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Spring and fall tend to be rainier and produce more active turf growth.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Spring and fall tend to be rainier and produce more active turf growth.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • The new turf will help reduce flooding and make the field more playable.
    — Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • In the forest there are branches, turf, and grass.
    — Carolyn Forché, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Unlike turf grass, clover only needs to be mowed a few times per year.
    — Lauren Wellbank, Martha Stewart, 12 May 2026
  • Contrast that with warm-season turf.
    — Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Now the Wolves get another turn on home turf.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026
  • On home turf, the six-part show is titled Rivages.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025

turf

2 of 2 verb
  • All grills brought to the park must remain on a hard surface, not turf.
    — Dallas News, 27 June 2022
  • Aytaç and Abdi got turfed out of their homes.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Part of the yard has been turfed and covered with a pergola and heaters.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • If Tsingshan didn’t pay its debts, the bankers could turf him out of his home.
    — Mark Burton, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • Seafood favorites include salmon smoked in oak, beechwood, and even turf.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Usually we are meant to go for a fitting but end up having to be turfed out at the end of the day.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2023
  • In a span of 40 years now, the Leafs have turfed their coach eight times with the season in progress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Rumors that the squatters would be turfed out were a near-constant feature of barangay tsismis.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Schools that are turfing their baseball/softball fields have their phones ringing constantly.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Seven coaches have been turfed this season, five for performance reasons.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Since turfing his slider, though, he's looked better at harnessing the ball and seems close to being the Sandy of old.
    — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • As for Elway being turfed after the year, anything is possible.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • By turfing the British out, Gálvez denied them a port in the Gulf of Mexico.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • The grass-removal pledge targets turf that people don’t work on, like in front of strip malls, in street medians or at the entrance to neighborhoods.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The grass-removal pledge targets turf that people don't work on, like in front of strip malls, in street medians or at the entrance to neighborhoods.
    — Sam Metz and Kathleen Ronayne, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Brock decided to turf her backyard, which backs up to a marsh, after being frustrated with how much mud and dirt her dogs were bringing into the house.
    — Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Boone could also give Judge a DH day in Texas, where Globe Life Field is turfed.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • One of my neighbors decided to turf both their front and backyard to eliminate any need for ongoing lawn maintenance and for a uniform look.
    — Elliott Harrell, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The first phase of the project will include converting many of the sports fields to turf to allow for less interruption of play due to weather conditions and overuse.
    — Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Rentals with in-unit laundry and turfed pet areas both had around 76 percent more shares and 91 percent more saves than comparable units without them.
    — Matt Yan, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • He was dumped as the nation’s president eight months later in a foreshadowing of how Zuma himself would be turfed out 10 years later.
    — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Unfortunately, on almost every occasion, Pancake ends up being turfed out by Bruno and his fiancee.
    — Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • And with 52 of 55 seats on the council held by Labour, there was little prospect of the party being turfed out and the company shut down by a new administration.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • Riddled by infighting, the party has failed to present a coherent vision for the country since being turfed out of power by Abe in a 2012 landslide after three years in government.
    — Andy Sharp, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The film opens with the exuberant physical energy of an African dance class, but that joy is cut short when community center staff override the booking and turf out the group, answering their complaints by telling them to show some respect.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2022
  • South Korea, after decades under strongmen who were less repressive but nevertheless still iron-fisted, has emerged as a democracy so vibrant that citizens peacefully turfed a president from office last year.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • That’s because under the new congressional map configurations, some of the five House Republican lawmakers getting turfed out could run in a different district.
    — David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025
  • It’s named for an investor who is a former Cincinnati Reds shortstop, has the exact dimensions of the field at Yankee Stadium in New York, and is artificially turfed for the broiling sun of the United Arab Emirates.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2025

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