How to Use switchgrass in a Sentence

switchgrass

noun
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  • For success, head downwind of a switchgrass field, CRP field, conifers, or a ridge.
    — Outdoor Life, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Stack said the most popular native plants Ted’s sells are prairie dropseed and switchgrass.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Daily Southtown, 14 May 2018
  • Fields of tall switchgrass, Indian grass, and big and little bluestem offer prime winter bedding cover.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Charging into the bluestem, Indiangrass and switchgrass that flourishes where corn and soybeans once grew, the two canines scoured the thick cover for pheasants.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
  • In addition to switchgrass and American beach grass, look for cocklebur, sea rocket and cottonwood here.
    — cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
  • Mechanized farms in places such as the U.S. corn belt could integrate perennial grasses, notably switchgrass and miscanthus.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Farmers are planting big expanses of perennial grasses such as miscanthus and switchgrass for biomass burning and hope to see fuel markets develop.
    — Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020
  • This relies on harvesting new carbon-sucking crops like switchgrass for fuel, then capturing the resulting emissions through machines that filter out emissions from where the power is generated.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 Dec. 2020
  • One of the leading companies exploring ethanol from biomass is Novozymes, which is developing an enzyme that turns corn stovers, wood chips, switchgrass and other agricultural waste into glucose sugar that can be converted into ethanol.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 3 Feb. 2006
  • Cellulosic ethanol, typically made from corn stalks, switchgrass and other materials, has been commercialized at a slower pace than supporters had hoped.
    — Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg.com, 5 July 2017
  • To begin with, biomass is burning organic materials for energy generation, such as wood products or switchgrass.
    — William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Planting a variety of clump forming grasses, like native switchgrass or bluestem will also provide daytime hiding areas for vulnerable (and mostly nocturnal) toads.
    — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2017
  • Understanding more about the microbial rules of engagement could help leverage microbiomes to improve health, or, more far afield, help solve technological challenges like making biofuel from switchgrass.
    — Eryn Brown, Smithsonian, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Unsurprisingly, the study found that using cropland or former pasture produced a much clearer carbon benefit than converting forest for switchgrass agriculture.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 27 Aug. 2020

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