Used in a Sentence

lawns

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lawns.

Editorial note

Yes, lawns are a terrible waste (footnote: did you know that lawns trace back to medievel times?

Examples14
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lawns gathered in one view.

noun

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

noun

A town in Texas, United States.

noun

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lawns.

noun

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

noun

A town in Texas, United States.

noun

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

noun

An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.

Example sentences

1

Yes, lawns are a terrible waste (footnote: did you know that lawns trace back to medievel times?

2

So too, lawns make people happy so they spend a whole lot of money making sure they have neat, green lawns.

3

Mowing 50% of lawns in the US means nothing if you still net a loss.

4

If the infrastructure is available, it would be interesting to force things like watering lawns with only water from something like a desalination plant.

5

You go to the people who live by the country club and offer to mow big lawns for $50.

6

You buy a lawnmower with the $100 and use it to mow lawns for $10 an hour.

7

After 2 weeks (80 hours), you have made $800 mowing lawns which would have been impossible without the loan.

8

Aesthetically, it might seem more natural than asphalt, but lawns are a long way from ‘nature’.

9

Growing food for people takes far more water than lawns and toilets and factories.

10

I could steal all the lawn mowing business in town if I were willing to mow lawns for free...

11

I reckon crops (even the less important non-staple ones) are more important than green lawns right now.

12

I live in Los Angeles proper, and the majority of my neighbors already had low-water lawns to begin with.

Quote examples

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Indeed, it seems like the paragraph: > After the talk about “Poetry, Drumming and Mathematics”, we arrived at the appointed time at the Bose–Einstein Guest House to find our man, with his mother, standing transfixed by the deer grazing on the lawns.

Proper noun examples

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Lawns are a smaller problem, but are truly a complete waste, with no productive value given in return.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lawns in a sentence?

Yes, lawns are a terrible waste (footnote: did you know that lawns trace back to medievel times?

What does lawns mean?

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

What part of speech is lawns?

lawns is commonly used as noun.