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.)

  • But elsewhere in the codex, he maintains that only moving water produces pressure at the bottom, reasoning that the still water of a pond, after all, does not press down the grasses that grow on the bottom.

  • 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.

  • Michael Brady, who managed the Canadian project in Jakarta, points out that headmen in remote communities are still likely to believe that wildfires start spontaneously, by grasses rubbing together or even by magic.

  • 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.


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