1.   All her life had been spent surrounded by grimy bricks with hardly a green grass blade in sight.

2.   I can see wildflowers crouched among the blown grass blades.

3.   The grass blades tore, but their initial resistance sent him stumbling backwards.

4.   Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades.

5.   At this time of year, the grass blades in lawns are growing slowly or not at all, but the roots are still storing food for winter.

6.   A healthy lawn is covered with an even, dense growth of grass plants where mostly grass blades rather than stems are visible.

7.   A mulching mower will cut the grass blades into small pieces that quickly break down, returning nitrogen to the soil.

8.   But preventing hundreds of thousands of feet from stamping the grass blades into mulch is tougher.

9.   Chinch bugs suck the sap from grass blades and make them wilt, then die.

10.   Crabgrass plants show lots of stem, and the stems and grass blades tend to sprawl on the ground rather than growing upright.