How to Use turf in a Sentence

turf

1 of 2 noun
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  • The team played on home turf.
  • Synthetic turf was installed in the playing field instead of grass.
  • Some of the games will be played on our high school’s new turf.
    — Jdumound, cleveland, 18 July 2023
  • The roofs of the buildings were made from straw and topped by turf and clay.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Brett Williams But the real highlight—and the busiest spot—was the black turf field.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Bradley does this version of the Thai soup as kind of a surf-and-turf with crispy fowl and king crab.
    — Andy Wang, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The Miller family knew for a month the storm was coming, but at least the eye would be on their turf this week.
    — Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This neighborhood, by the way, is Taylor Swift and Co. turf.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Head to toe in base layers because of the abrasiveness of turf.
    — oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • Both are designed with an open floor plan and include a mudroom and a fenced turf yard.
    — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • Adler, meanwhile, is a fan of the backyard’s pink turf, and Brooks is impressed by the swim-up drinks station.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 29 July 2023
  • The venue is open 85 percent of the year as a public park, including the expansive turf lawn in front of the stage.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Even turf can be put on drip with grid systems installed under the sod.
    — Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Padres, for one, didn’t want the Chargers encroaching on their downtown turf.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The impact of diving on turf is a lot different on grass, too.
    — oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • Twentynine Palms is their home turf, but the unit from Hawaii was keeping them at bay.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
  • One of his contacts fell onto the turf, just another piece lost to the season.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
  • It’s scheduled to be replaced by an all-weather turf field.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In Las Vegas, a war on turf has helped reduce water use.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The wall spans 73 miles—all the way across what is now northern England—and is made primarily of stone and turf.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The men did buy it, and then asked for more, and the inside back cover quickly became Mr. Jaffee’s turf.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The Giants play 81 home games, and if the players know what to expect on their own turf, chances of winning improve.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Just outside the park, massive sprinklers water a bright green plot of golf-course turf throughout the day.
    — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • By contrast, Democrats are hoping to make gains on less hospitable turf.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The message is clear: do not bring all that social justice and crime into our turf or you will get dealt with.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
  • But of course, there is a chance encounters will still occur when out and about on the wild animals' turf.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But Hughes, 28, all of a sudden crumbled to the Tiger Stadium turf.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2023
  • For Howell, the subject of grass versus turf extends beyond the aesthetics of the game.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In response to those concerns, the artificial turf was switched out for the 2023 season.
    — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The throw was one of his most memorable Sunday even though the ball traveled about one yard and straight into the Lambeau Field turf.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2023
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turf

2 of 2 verb
  • In a span of 40 years now, the Leafs have turfed their coach eight times with the season in progress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Riecken claimed him that day and the breeding screams turf.
    — Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • If Tsingshan didn’t pay its debts, the bankers could turf him out of his home.
    — Mark Burton, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • By turfing the British out, Gálvez denied them a port in the Gulf of Mexico.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Seafood favorites include salmon smoked in oak, beechwood, and even turf.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Our Best Bet today will be in Race 9 — #8 Copa: hoping this one will take to turf and kick on in the stretch moving back to a sprint at a big price.
    — NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Simply Beguiled: Second-time starter going to turf and around two turns.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The grass-removal pledge targets turf that people don’t work on, like in front of strip malls, in street medians or at the entrance to neighborhoods.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And with 52 of 55 seats on the council held by Labour, there was little prospect of the party being turfed out and the company shut down by a new administration.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • As for Elway being turfed after the year, anything is possible.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Schools that are turfing their baseball/softball fields have their phones ringing constantly.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • He was dumped as the nation’s president eight months later in a foreshadowing of how Zuma himself would be turfed out 10 years later.
    — Bloomberg.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Seven coaches have been turfed this season, five for performance reasons.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • This party is in the first stages of picking its nominee, who will contest the only method still remaining for turfing Trump out of office — namely, the election this November.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Riddled by infighting, the party has failed to present a coherent vision for the country since being turfed out of power by Abe in a 2012 landslide after three years in government.
    — Andy Sharp, Bloomberg.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Damage to property, Chagrin Boulevard: A resident reported on June 9 that somebody ran into his mailbox and turfed his lawn.
    — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 15 June 2017
  • The film opens with the exuberant physical energy of an African dance class, but that joy is cut short when community center staff override the booking and turf out the group, answering their complaints by telling them to show some respect.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 June 2022
  • From the heart of the city's financial district, to outlying islands and working-class estates in Kowloon, pro-democracy and anti-government candidates turfed out established pro-Beijing councilors.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • South Korea, after decades under strongmen who were less repressive but nevertheless still iron-fisted, has emerged as a democracy so vibrant that citizens peacefully turfed a president from office last year.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In a span of 40 years now, the Leafs have turfed their coach eight times with the season in progress.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Riecken claimed him that day and the breeding screams turf.
    — Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
  • If Tsingshan didn’t pay its debts, the bankers could turf him out of his home.
    — Mark Burton, Fortune, 7 July 2022
  • By turfing the British out, Gálvez denied them a port in the Gulf of Mexico.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 July 2019
  • Seafood favorites include salmon smoked in oak, beechwood, and even turf.
    — Lea Lane, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Our Best Bet today will be in Race 9 — #8 Copa: hoping this one will take to turf and kick on in the stretch moving back to a sprint at a big price.
    — NOLA.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Simply Beguiled: Second-time starter going to turf and around two turns.
    — Michael Beychok, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The grass-removal pledge targets turf that people don’t work on, like in front of strip malls, in street medians or at the entrance to neighborhoods.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • And with 52 of 55 seats on the council held by Labour, there was little prospect of the party being turfed out and the company shut down by a new administration.
    — The Economist, 3 May 2018
  • As for Elway being turfed after the year, anything is possible.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Schools that are turfing their baseball/softball fields have their phones ringing constantly.
    — Scott Springer, Cincinnati.com, 30 Mar. 2018

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