Example sentences for: grasses

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

  • (Best guesses: 12 billion years; absorption of carbon dioxide by grasses lowers temperatures; to process memories; not the foggiest idea.)

  • first frost whitens grasses, first white smoke from his neighbor's cabin

  • While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.

  • Here the immune system reacts to proteins contained in pollen, tiny airborne particles released as part of the reproductive cycle of trees, weeds, and grasses.

  • Most ecologists work by carrying out experimental manipulations on small groups of similar organisms: the warblers in a woodland, for example, or the grasses of a meadow.


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