Grass-grown in a sentence

The word "grass-grown" in a example sentences. Learn the definition of grass-grown and how to use it in a sentence.


Definition of Grass-grown

  • Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.

How to use grass-grown in a sentence. Grass-grown pronunciation.

There were some rough chimney-pieces high up in the grass-grown walls, but beyond these really nothing to be seen, and he wandered out seeking traces of terraces along the hillside.
An old grass-grown trail followed the course of a shallow wash where flowed a thin stream of water.
Above all, I saw the rare old Gothic Cathedral, with its wondrous wealth of antique sculpture; its iron spire, destined, despite its traceried beauty, to everlasting incompleteness; its grass-grown buttresses, and crumbling pinnacles, and portals crowded with images of saints and kings.
A sort of grim horror began to stir at his soul as he gazed on the grass-grown mounds-proofs that the old councilor would inherit a place in the Mormon Heaven having obeyed the injunctions of his prophet on earth.
Thus mirthfully he swung down the rough grass-grown road, past the railway, till he came to a point where heath began to merge in pasture, and dry-stone walls split the moor into fields.
She turned Pard into the shed where she invariably left him when she came to the Lazy A, and went on up the grass-grown path to the house.
Though now quite deserted and grass-grown, at the beginning of the century it was well kept and frequented by traffic.
He reached his little grass-grown terrace, and found it as sunny and as private as before.
Where but in a grass-grown corner of an old Italian town?
There instantly rose before his mind the vision of that moment when he had stood face to face with this same apologetic mamma, after Angela had turned her back, on the grass-grown terrace at Siena.
There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle, between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
Cromwell had liv'd contented and unknown To teach his children loyalty and faith Sacred and simple, as the grass-grown mound, That should have press'd more lightly on his bones, Than ever greatness on his wearied spirit!
The road into which they turned was little more than a track, with a high, grass-grown ridge in the centre.
I noticed below the well a large mound, grass-grown, with an apple-tree growing on its very top.
Streets and squares a' grass-grown, sae that they micht be mawn!

Examples of Grass-grown

Example #1
On meeting a countryman out with his dogs he tried to inquire about the state of the road.
Example #2
No sooner did he speak these words than they began to cheer him, and in spite of all the priest could say they carried him into the field in which he shot Browne of the Neale. 'A queer people, the queerest in the world,' Father Oliver thought, as he pulled a thorn-bush out of the doorway and stood looking round.
Example #3
The canyon was a hundred rods wide, its yellow walls were perpendicular; it had abundant sage and a scant growth of oak and pinon.
Example #4
Venters saddled and led him out of the oak thicket, and, leaping astride, rode up the canyon, with Ring and Whitie trotting behind.
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