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• The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.From the entry beetle
• Meanwhile, in Ch'eng-tu, beyond the Ch'in Ling Mountains, Tu Fu found his thatch hut.2012, Michael Kenyon, A Year at River Mountain, Thistledown Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124. From the entry Ch'eng-tu
• He then retrieved a metal thatch rake and used it to tamp down the ashes.2011, Stephen W. Trout, My Father's Son, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry thatch rake
• He thrust out through the thatch, and that became woundsome to them.2010, Mark Ludwig Stinson, The Saga Hoard - Volume 1: Icelandic Sagas. From the entry woundsome
• A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick.2007, Trey Rogers, Lawn Geek: Tips and Tricks for the Ultimate Turf From the Guru of Grass, →ISBN. From the entry thatch rake
• Thatched and creepered, the cottage today has externally changed very little.2004, Judith Stinton, Chaldon Herring: Writers in a Dorset Landscape, page 25. From the entry creepered
• Thatch had come down the stairs and chimed in: "Isn't he an awful buckin' eejit?"2003, Sam Stewart, The Druid, page 195. From the entry buck
• Within the lakou, homes consist of wood-framed huts with thatch or corrugated-iron roofs.2000, Emily Wade Will, Haiti, page 61. From the entry lakou
• His home was in a little settlement of neat mud and thatch huts.1997, Lakshmi Mukundan, African tales from Tendai's grandmother. From the entry Tendai
• Thatching rakes with knifelike blades instead of teeth are useful for small lawns.1994, Cathy Haas, Janet Goldenberg, Michael MacCaskey, All about Lawns, page 77. From the entry thatching rake
• Another tool for small areas is called a cavex rake, or thatch rake.1991, Complete Guide to Gardening and Landscaping, page 138. From the entry cavex rake
• "Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top.1980, Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine, page 81. From the entry feh
• Everyone was standing under a kind of thatched chuppa.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry chuppah
• He preferred the mabati roofs to the thatch because the mabati is good for rainwater harvesting and it is longer-lasting.2010, Marilyn Waite, Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment, page 106. From the entry mabati
• Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.2005, David W. Moore, The Other British Isles, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry John Bull
• Use a wide bamboo or metal leaf rake to gather up all the thatch ripped out by the verticutter.1999, Maureen Gilmer, The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry verticutter
• Near the schoolhouse was a tholtan, a tiny, half-ruined cottage with sagging thatch and the door off its hinges.1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer, page 25. From the entry tholtan
• Thatching rakes have knifelike blades instead of tines.1981, Organic Gardening - Volume 28, Issues 1-4, page 78. From the entry thatching rake
• There is no uniformity: clay-and-straw cob walls and thatch roofs stand happily next to brick and tile, timber and stone.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 334, about Rockbourne. From the entry uniformity
• Old houses in the north-east sometimes have a thick layer of flax waste or “shows” under the thatch.1942 March, E[myr] Estyn Evans, Irish Heritage: The Landscape, the People and Their Work, Dundalk, County Louth: W[illiam] Tempest…. From the entry show
• The kutcha house made of mud, bamboo, and thatch and its modern replacement the pukka house, constructed of fired bricks, cement, and steel.2024 January 1, Billie Faircloth, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke, Design for Climate Adaptation…. From the entry pukka
• There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.2013, Jan Campbell, Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature, →ISBN. From the entry sea-light
• After being thus secured the surface was beaten flat and, in the case of straw thatch was combed down with a thatcher's rake.2007, Basil Oliver, The Cottages of England: Country Homes from the 16th to 18th Century, →ISBN. From the entry thatcher's rake
• The place was really no more than a cottage, wattle-daubed walls and a thatched roof with an ale bush pushed under the eaves.2004, P. C. Doherty, The Hangman's Hymn: The Carpenter's Tale of Mystery and Murder, page 48. From the entry ale-bush
• Ensete leaves are used for wrapping, thatching, ground cover for sitting, containers, dresses, ornamentation at funerals and weddings, and shading from sun and rain.2004, Stephen B. Brush, Farmers’ Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World (Yale Agrarian Studies Series), New Haven…. From the entry ensete
• A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus, published 2010, page 6. From the entry kraal
• The dethatcher has blades that cut perpendicular to the lawn, thereby removing the dead debris called thatch, which can easily build up in a lawn.1988, Stefan Buczacki, Conran's basic book of home gardening. From the entry dethatcher
• The musty smell of old thatch was mingled with the smell of Mrs Tulsi’s medicaments: bay rum, soft candles, Canadian Healing Oil, ammonia.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 4. From the entry medicament
• The thatched cottage in the heart of the country is artistically most attractive—provided that we have not got to live in it!1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 262. From the entry thatched
• After the thatch is secured on the roof, it is usual in England to make the surface flat and even by beating and combing.1916, Charles Frederick Innocent, The Development of English Building Construction, page 205. From the entry thatcher's rake
• The thatched semispherical huts of palm tree leaves and tamarisk were also interesting, as was the windmill, identical with those already seen in Sistan.1902, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Across Coveted Lands. From the entry semispherical
• The manager publicly announced that the kutcha house loan was for those who lived in thatched huts and the linkage loan for those who lived in tiled houses!2016 July 7, K. Kalpana, Women, Microfinance and the State in Neo-liberal India, Routledge, →ISBN, page 129. From the entry kutcha
• Men were smoothening the thatch, which ran from the top of the roof to the ground covering the sides and at the back of the building.2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 34. From the entry smoothen
• 'Is my thatch not immaculate?' This is most obvious in west Suffolk, where the old wool-based opulence has been fortified by the wagonloads of Waitrosey weekenders.2014, Matthew Engel, Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man. From the entry Waitrosey
• If the thatch isn't very thick, you can dethatch a cool-season lawn by hand; rake vigorously with an ordinary metal grass rake or a special de-thatching rake.2013, Pat Welsh, Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide, →ISBN. From the entry de-thatching rake
• We followed a well-worn trail that led across windswept slopes, punctuated with scrabbly vegetation and weathered boulders and dotted with occasional stone-and-mud huts with thatched roofs.2006, J. Douglas Bottorff, The Whisper of Pialigos, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry scrabbly

Meaning of thatch

1. noun Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. noun Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
3. noun A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.

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Questions about thatch in a sentence

How do you use thatch in a sentence?

Thatch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.”

What is a short sentence with thatch?

“Thatching rakes have knifelike blades instead of tines.”

What does thatch mean?

Thatch means straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.