How to Use Bermuda grass in a Sentence

Bermuda grass

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  • The Super Bowl 57 grass featured a Bermuda grass base and rye grass overseed.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Next on their list is installation of lights — so that games can be played at night — and Bermuda grass, to help the ball roll faster.
    — Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Henley’s best putting surface is Bermuda grass as he’s gained about 0.331 strokes/round with the flat-stick on those surfaces.
    — Nick Hennion, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe the new Bermuda grass surface didn’t drain as well as anyone would have liked, but there weren’t divots and chunks of turf flying up.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Ellis said he’s had some issues with tendrils of his old Bermuda grass trying to grow through.
    — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The process for growing the field began one year ago when a local sod farm housed the hybrid Bermuda grass with perennial rye grass.
    — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That means planting their pastures with long, native grasses, as opposed to the short Bermuda grass many ranchers in this area use.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The Bears and Niners will play on new turf after Bermuda grass was installed this week instead of the usual Kentucky bluegrass.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But the yards of Bermuda grass are only a fraction of a stadium’s total water usage.
    — Hector Diaz, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This particular batch of turf — which has a Bermuda grass base that includes rye grass overseed — started growing at a local sod farm in May 2021.
    — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Velez, who started his company at 19, has been growing alfalfa, Bermuda grass, wheat and onions.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • For the Super Bowl, organizers are replacing the sod with an entirely new field – a hybrid of Bermuda grass and perennial rye grass – that began growing more than a year ago.
    — USA Today, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Whether the shovel or a sod cutter is your preferred tool of choice, just know that lingering roots (especially if dealing with Bermuda grass) will make a spirited return if not tended to.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Upgrades also included pruning vegetation to widen corridors and let more air and light onto the greens and fairways and installing a more drought-tolerant Bermuda grass on the course.
    — Jessica Dailey, Town & Country, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Contact herbicides for controlling Bermuda grass will work only if the plants are actively growing.
    — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Sod lawns south of the Mason-Dixon line are almost always non-native, enthusiastically invasive Bermuda grass.
    — Jeanne Erdmann, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2020
  • Many golf courses use drought-intolerant blends of Bermuda grass because of a popular perception that golfers would rather play on it - or, at least, that its bright green color is more attractive to nearby homeowners, industry experts say.
    — Nick Aspinwall, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • In Brian Bautista’s yard, upright showy penstemon, aromatic hummingbird sage, hardy toyon trees, and two types of milkweed — dramatic plants requiring little water — attract birds, butterflies and bees and flourish amid the Bermuda grass lawns.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023

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