adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grassy plain
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The village is situated on the high grassy plains at the foot of the Sierra.
a grassy slope
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The children had fun rolling down a grassy slope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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bank
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She was sitting on a grassy bank , leaning forward a little, a cigarette between her fingers, and she was speaking.
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You can take boat rides, walk the wharf or picnic along the rivers' grassy banks .
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A moment later, his shining, wet body landed half-way up the grassy bank where Van Cheele was standing.
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Off the road to our left begins a grassy bank that will continue almost to the river.
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She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I couldn't remember what she was saying.
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I wondered where the grassy bank had been.
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Pan, seated on his grassy bank , leading the naiads and the dryads where he will.
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At their feet a grassy bank shelved to white sand, and a river the colour of emeralds streamed by.
field
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There was a wire fence ahead, with a grassy field beyond it.
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Beyond the glade was a grassy field with a stand of cottonwood trees beside a stream.
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Joining the group for 12 laps of grassy field surrounding the track, I found their easy pace to my liking.
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The Cadillac was standing in the middle of a small grassy field .
hill
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A church that stood upon a grassy hill and to which you mounted by a flight of steep stone stairs.
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Resler was on the stick, flaring toward the top of a grassy hill .
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And if we examine the bare rock at the base of the grassy hill we discover carved spirals.
knoll
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With such thoughts in my head and lithe grace in my movements, I loped up the grassy knoll to the court.
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The mood somber on the grassy knolls , I stood, feeling like an observer, detached from the group, defeated.
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Mike came out and stood in the colonnade on the other side of the grassy knoll .
plain
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Towards the north these turn into pine forests and eventually thin out to form the grassy plains of Kislev.
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Dry grassy plains or open scrub, semi-deserts.
slope
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On its shallow grassy slopes butterflies are still abundant, and the old chalk-loving flowers can be found.
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Carry out researches and observations wherever you spot grassy slopes and lots of people sitting them to enjoy picnics.
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The Glory shuddered to a sudden halt on the grassy slope in front of the Monument and they were thrown forward against their seat-belts.
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So we set out across the open grassy slope that led on up towards the forest.
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Crossing the coast road, she climbed up the gradual grassy slope on the land ward side of the sea wall.
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The seed of City Earth lay here, now, before them physically before them - as they climbed the grassy slope .
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He strolled along the terrace below which the grassy slopes fell away steeply towards an ornamental lake.
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There are also grassy slopes with seats and tents for convenience of strollers.
track
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The West Wood was dim and silent as she trod the grassy track through it.
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The abbey site is approached through a gate in a country lane and along a grassy track .
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Further along the grassy track , half hidden behind trees, a church roof can be glimpsed.
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We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.
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The grassy track ran level, curved and dipped a little, emerged from the trees.
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Continue along the ridge for another two miles on grassy tracks .
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Turn right here leading on to a grassy track .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a grassy hill
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By that time college students and their black-caped Jesuit professors were hurrying across the grassy campus to classes.
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He could see the grassy wilderness forming a high bank beyond the old bulging stone wall that held back the encroaching hillside.
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Resler was on the stick, flaring toward the top of a grassy hill.
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She went for him now, on the grassy river bank, surprising staider strolling couples.
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Steppes and any other open grassy country.
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Take the footpath between the hedge and the gravestones to go through a gate and along a grassy path.
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Ted looked at him and then did this realistic slow-motion fall right on the grassy expanse to the side of the road.
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They landed on the little grassy strip.