Example sentences for: turf

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

  • Because my city experience was largely limited to student enclaves, however, nothing prepared me for establishing turf in a working-class urban neighborhood.

  • Recalling the Goldwater-Nichols legislation of 1986, Secretary Rumsfeld reminded us that to achieve better joint capability, each of the armed services had to "give up some of their turf and authorities and prerogatives."

  • protecting turf to forming partnerships.

  • The New York Times lead states that the "consumer" health-care laws (the scare-quotes are supplied by the Times ) being discussed in state capitals tend to focus more on protecting "the incomes, jobs and turf of the health-care system's biggest and richest vested interests," namely, specialist physicians and managed-care plans.

  • Yet al Qaeda's deference to Hambali's turf apparently had limits.


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