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Moss in sentence

46 examples of Moss in a sentence

But you can find tardigrades in the most ordinary places, too, like moss or lichen found in yards, parks, and forests.
And these mosses, generated by decomposing, are like peat moss in your garden.
Now most of these farms are hydroponic or aeroponic systems, which means that instead of using soil, they use a substitute material like polyurethane sponges, biodegradable peat moss and even use inorganic materials like perlite and clay pellets.
Xoquauhtli’s team battles heartily, throwing nochtles, marigolds, and balls made of reed and moss.
First of all, they're turning the tundra, the moss, back into grassland.
What looks like moss covering rocks is actually a shrub comprised of thousands of branches, each containing clusters of tiny green leaves at the end and so densely packed together that you could actually stand on top of it.
I'm trying to travel there to find 5,000 year-old moss, which lives on the Antarctic Peninsula.
The strong point is atmosphere of the woods as people and monsters lurk around the Spanish moss.
the Revisited dvd also shows carrie ann moss spraining her ankle during the lobby scene and being really distraught because she feels like she's letting the crew down.
The settings are gorgeous, the town at dusk has beautiful lighting effects, the marsh long shots, and the house itself is sufficiently grown with moss.
And when what's-his-name gets strangled by killer moss while hairy spiders eat him alive...well, that's just pure class.
Then we would drive around those back roads full of trees and Spanish moss and eat an early dinner: fried cat fish, fried okra, rice, and whatever fresh thing they had that our small stomachs could contain.
Ladders, seven metres in length, followed one another, some still firm, others shaky, yielding and almost broken; the steps were narrow and green, so rotten that one seemed to walk in moss; and as one went down the heat grew suffocating, :he heat of an oven proceeding from the air-shaft which was, fortunately, not very active now the strike was on, or when the furnace devoured its five thousand kilograms of coal a day, one could not have risked oneself here without scorching one's hair.
The cold was sharpening with the twilight and the frozen moss crackled beneath the feet.
At last they threw handfuls of frozen moss at him, and a woman cried in a shrill voice:"Down with the traitor!"
The frozen moss crackled beneath the heels of the crowd, while the beeches, erect in their strength, with the delicate tracery of their black branches against the white sky, neither saw nor heard the miserable beings who writhed at their feet.
The general effect of these smooth rocks is indescribable: black, polished, without moss or other blemish, carved into strange shapes, sitting firmly on a carpet of sand that sparkled beneath our streams of electric light.
In the avenue a green light dimmed by the leaves lit up the short moss that crackled softly beneath her feet.
The red claws of lobsters hung over the dishes; rich fruit in open baskets was piled up on moss; there were quails in their plumage; smoke was rising; and in silk stockings, knee-breeches, white cravat, and frilled shirt, the steward, grave as a judge, offering ready carved dishes between the shoulders of the guests, with a touch of the spoon gave you the piece chosen.
She walked on in front on the moss between the paths.
Such a mellow, bright, sweet old wall; what a charming picture it would make, with the lichen creeping here, and the moss growing there, a shy young vine peeping over the top at this spot, to see what is going on upon the busy river, and the sober old ivy clustering a little farther down!
CHAPTER VThrough Solway sands, through Taross moss, Blindfold, he knew the paths to cross: By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds.
The ivy and the moss crept in thick clusters over the old trees, and the soft green turf overspread the ground like a silken mat.
A jagged stone was lying among the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained.
Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it.
It exactly answers my idea of a fine country, because it unites beauty with utility--and I dare say it is a picturesque one too, because you admire it; I can easily believe it to be full of rocks and promontories, grey moss and brush wood, but these are all lost on me.
The earth beneath his elbows grew moist, and the rock where it cropped out showed rotten with moisture and coated with moss.
At that moment our hunter returned, who had been seeing his horses provided for; that is to say, he had economically let them loose in the fields, where the poor beasts had to content themselves with the scanty moss they could pull off the rocks and a few meagre sea weeds, and the next day they would not fail to come of themselves and resume the labours of the previous day.
A soft carpet of moss and hepaticas luxuriously clothed the soil.
The wagonette swung round into a side road, and we curved upward through deep lanes worn by centuries of wheels, high banks on either side, heavy with dripping moss and fleshy hart's-tongue ferns.