How to Use ryegrass in a Sentence

ryegrass

noun
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  • The clover program goes hand-in-hand with a ryegrass program.
    — Nick Perry, ajc, 14 Nov. 2022
  • What’s sold as annual ryegrass is coarser and hangs around longer in the spring.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These fescues do no mix well with bluegrass and ryegrass, because of the wider grass blades.
    — Dick Crum, Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2017
  • Use ryegrass to fill bare spots or sparse lawns for the winter but maybe not as an overseeding for healthy turf.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Rake off the dead/dying ryegrass and plant permanent lawn grass seeds then.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The lawn is that bright-green ryegrass with brown jigsaw pieces where somebody sprayed ant poison.
    — Lee Durkee, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Cool-season grasses such as ryegrass and fescue can be planted in the later part of the month.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Sowings of ryegrass would be as good as any type, but some shady lawn seed mixtures are available.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Nov. 2020
  • One approach is to overseed in the fall with a ryegrass that will hold green color through the winter, then die off with spring mowing.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Wait until the night temperatures dip into the 50s and days no higher than the low 80s to sow ryegrass seed.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Tubbs came across the Artec Space Spider while looking for ways to study ryegrass and early seed shattering.
    — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Tahoma 31 turns brown and yellow in cold weather, and adding ryegrass allowed the field to maintain a lush green aesthetic.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Most likely it’s due to their experiences with easy to grow ryegrass that when tossed out quickly grows a lawn.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2017
  • If sowed too early, diseases affect the ryegrass and cause decline.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • The problem, according to the Washington Post, is that the field also was seeded with a ryegrass to help with the visuals.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Perennial ryegrass is used for lawns in the north, but it’s also sometimes used to overseed warm season grasses in the south.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Nothing is static, not the bluegrass-ryegrass blend growing out there, not the architecture, not the angle of the sun hitting the seats.
    — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Even cool-season grasses like fescue and ryegrass will be sluggish at best.
    — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Cook came up with a mixture of perennial and Kentucky ryegrass, yarrow, clovers and English daisy that is sold today as Fleur de lawn.
    — oregonlive, 18 July 2022
  • The paper straw was patented in 1888 by Marvin C. Stone who had the idea while sipping an inferior mint julep with a ryegrass straw.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The key ingredients are yarrow, clover and a non-invasive grass such as perennial ryegrass or hard fescue (or a mix of the two).
    — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Perennial ryegrass is fed to livestock in the United States and many other countries.
    — Jeff Kart, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Friday that territory was the 115 yards of wet ryegrass and synthetic turf that lines the floor of TQL Stadium.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • By mid-June fertilize cool-season lawn grass (turf-type tall fescue, ryegrass and Kentucky blue grass).
    — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
  • Research in the Willamette Valley has shown it to need half the water of perennial ryegrass, a major component of grass seed mixes.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2023
  • In fact, he’s never aerated his perennial ryegrass lawn, which is what most people have in their yards.
    — oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
  • If moss has been a problem, scratch the surface before seeding with perennial ryegrass.
    — oregonlive, 7 Apr. 2021
  • If moss has been a problem, scratch the surface before seeding with perennial ryegrass.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In cooler climates where bluegrass and ryegrass are prevalent, early spring and early fall are good times to aerate.
    — Melissa Nott, chicagotribune.com, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Some species, like perennial ryegrass do not produce much thatch and take dethatching well.
    — oregonlive, 2 July 2023

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