How to Use turfgrass in a Sentence

turfgrass

noun

• Each type of turfgrass (the term for grasses that form a lawn) has an ideal mowing height.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 12 Apr. 2021
• That’s why the guy at the end of a garden hose squirting his lawn is doing the turfgrass a big disservice.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 2 Feb. 2018
• There’s a lot of disease showing up in the turfgrasses right now.
  — Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2020
• Tiny, crawling troops are making their way across Ohio and Kentucky, eating turfgrass and crops and leaving a trail of dead plants in their wake.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 1 Sep. 2021
• Damage from the pests first appears like drought stress as the armyworm larvae strip tissue from turfgrass leaves.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2021
• Choose only the best plants — trees, shrubs, turfgrass, flowers, fruit trees and vegetables.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 16 Feb. 2018
• It’s planting time for cool-season vegetable crops and flowers, and also time for some turfgrass projects.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
• Three acres of turfgrass on the northeast corner of Lords Park has been designated as a pesticide-free zone by the city of Elgin.
  — Courier-News Staff Report, chicagotribune.com, 13 May 2021
• Orchardgrass grows faster and is lighter green than our turfgrasses.
  — Dennis Patton, kansascity, 25 Aug. 2017
• Start with a soil test, said Peter Landschoot, professor of turfgrass science at Penn State.
  — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 13 June 2020
• Pecans benefit from the same nutrients as your turfgrass does.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Feb. 2021
• In the front yard, our tree roots have to compete with the roots of turfgrass — an incredibly aggressive harvester of moisture and nutrients.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2021
• Another option that might work more quickly is to plant grasses, not turfgrass, but creeping ones such as mondo grass.
  — oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2022
• This is a widespread invasive species commonly found in home landscapes, both in turfgrass and flower and vegetable beds.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• Things are winding down for warm season turfgrass, but cool season still is actively growing.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 15 Apr. 2021
• To measure all-important cutting performance, our experts test mowers and tractors on a variety of terrains, from hilly to flat and on many types of turfgrass.
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2022
• Half the battle can be removing invasives, unwanted lawn turfgrass and aggressive plants that take over.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2022
• The scalped lawn is the most common malady of the modern turfgrass environment, in both residential and commercial landscapes.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2024
• Lack of water and dry lawns encourages turfgrass mites, especially on south and southwest locations.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2017
• Eventually, the family decided to build its own golf course on the farm as a tool to both entertain customers, like golf course superintendents, and serve as a site for turfgrass research and demonstration.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 24 June 2020
• Hoosier homeowners have plenty of options to consider when trying to replace turfgrass with something low-maintenance, and there are plenty of non-standard options, too.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2022
• Lawns with turfgrass don't provide as many resources for pollinators compared with a yard containing an abundance of low growing flowering plants.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2023
• Lawns with turfgrass don't provide as many resources for pollinators compared with a yard containing an abundance of low-growing flowering plants.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• These include turfgrass replacement, rain barrels and cisterns, downspout redirects and rain gutters.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2023
• Today, turfgrass has spread like a green plague across the United States, replacing native species and wasting an extraordinary amount of a precious resource—up to 75 percent of an American household’s water is sprayed willy-nilly on the yard.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• In general, the garden plants that might benefit from routine fertilization would be turfgrass and edible crops (fruits and vegetables).
  — Miri Talabac, baltimoresun.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• And mowing your lawn can break up leaves and bring nutrients to your grass, according to Maxim Schlossberg, an associate professor of turfgrass nutrition and soil fertility at Penn State.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• Mowing your grass at a 2-inch height actually encourages non-grass weeds and puts your turfgrass at a competitive disadvantage.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 17 July 2021
• Mowing your lawn can break up leaves and bring nutrients to your grass, according to Maxim Schlossberg, an associate professor of turfgrass nutrition and soil fertility at Penn State.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022
• In addition to being attractive, using the ornamental grasses as groundcovers to replace lawn grass in the shade uses less water than turfgrass, requires less maintenance and performs better in the shade.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 25 June 2021

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024