Pronunciation of the English word turf.
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1. | A stone is heavy on its own turf. | |
2. | You kind of are on her turf. | |
3. | We ate surf and turf. | |
4. | We ate surf 'n' turf. | |
5. | Here he saw a pool of water, clear to its very depths. There were no marsh reeds round it, no sterile sedge, no spikes of rushes: it was crystal liquid. The edges of the pool were bordered by fresh turf, and the grass was always green. | |
6. | This is Tom's turf. | |
7. | He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London. | |
8. | We crossed the marshy bottom and passed over a quarter of a mile of dry, hard turf. | |
9. | Within a grove Andromache that day, / where Simois in fancy flowed again, / her offerings chanced at Hector's grave to pay, / a turf-built cenotaph, with altars twain, / source of her tears and sacred to the slain – / and called his shade. | |
10. | At length, in a desperate lunge, which he followed with an attempt to close, Bucklaw's foot slipped, and he fell on the short grassy turf on which they were fighting. |