Example sentences for: grass

How can you use “grass” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The real reason for the piece isn't revealed until the fifth paragraph: Whitman's book Leaves of Grass "has a cameo in the investigation involving President Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky."

  • If you’d like to take back an authentic bottle of Polish vodka, or wódka (pronounced “voot-ka”), look for Wyborowa, Zytnia, or any of the flavored vodkas, such as Zubrówka (with a blade of “bison grass” in the bottle) and My§liwska (juniper-flavored).

  • When the plane arrived at Lexington Blue Grass Airport, that airport had also been open for more than five hours.

  • In any case, the Swedish Academy has explained why it gave Grass the prize--because of his first novel, The Tin Drum , published in 1959.

  • Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.


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