lawn

as in grass
an area of ground (such as the ground around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with short grass We had a picnic on the lawn in front of the monument. a neighborhood with well-kept lawns

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Recent Examples of lawn Lynch’s career-realigning Blue Velvet, which introduced MacLachlan to audiences as amateur detective and voyeur Jeffrey Beaumont, starts with the hero’s father collapsing of a stroke while watering his lawn, the kink in the hose visualizing what happened in the man’s circulatory system. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 For three or four days, everybody put aside their political beliefs and who's on your lawn on a sign, and all that nonsense. Raven Brunner, People.com, 15 Jan. 2025 In some areas, no more than the width of a suburban lawn separates the project from the retreat. Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025 For most of its existence, there were citrus groves and cutting gardens, greenhouses and broad lawns. Miami Herasld Archives, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for lawn 

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“Lawn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawn. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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