Here, thick turf ended, forming an earthen brace that gripped the upper rocks.

It spreads by its rhizomes and stolons, forming a thick turf.

His footsteps on the thick turf made no sound.

We walk across the lawn, past the administration building, the grass-a kind of thick turf with stiff blades and tangled roots-spongy under our feet.

We walked back across the thick, short turf and strewn rocks without speaking, silent with shock and grief.

Alan's team pulled steadily, slicing through the thick turf and laying open one straight, deep furrow after another.

Then he sprawled face down on thick wiry turf.

Creeping Charlie must contact bare soil to progress, so thick turf will stop it in its tracks.

It was impossible to see any tracks on this thick turf to tell me which I should take.

Above it, the rocks disappeared once more under thick turf, still winter-tawny.