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How To Use Groundsman In A Sentence

  • By the time he was a teenager in the 1950s, he was spending all his spare time at Recreation Park, cleaning boots, helping the groundsman, travelling to away games on the team bus.
  • In any case, his scooter is still in the groundsman's shed. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is particularly well placed, with a council groundsman, landscape gardener and golf greenkeeper on his playing staff.
  • For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite. Country diary: Lake District
  • Would it cost so much to employ a groundsman to keep the grass down and a few cleaners to give the place the once-over with a duster every now and then?
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  • To begin by noting that this exhibition includes a transcript of an interview the artist conducted with the head groundsman of Ellis Park stadium might suggest that it is a bit tedious.
  • In both cases, turf maintenance is high on the agenda - and head groundsman Steve Tingley is already is Paris.
  • The Hibs groundsman declared it unplayable, and the referee indicated during the warm-up that the match would be completed only if there was no more rain.
  • A groundsman miraculously walked away unscathed from a cricket pavilion that was turned to rubble when a boiler exploded.
  • A groundsman yesterday sweeps dew off the lawn at Oakland Hills Country Club, with the Ryder Cup standing at right.
  • We are competing against millionaire clubs and our only full-time paid employee is our groundsman and steward.
  • We know that the groundsman now holds sway over the game, and that he has been encouraged by cricket committees in recent years, largely for financial reasons, to secure a wicket which, mainly by the introduction of binding soils and the use of the heavy roller, is little short of the condition of concrete. Archive 2009-03-01
  • He now works as a groundsman at the Ross Park Primary School.
  • In contrast, the programme follows Colin, the groundsman, in his quest to keep the Meadow End from sinking.
  • Moving on to the police search of the groundsman's hangar building, he said he opened it up for the police.
  • Australia's groundsmen are normally fiercely independent but attitudes might have changed slightly after The Oval groundsman, Bill Gordon, made no secret in 2009 of his delight about a dry, dusty surface on which England won the Ashes and Swann took eight wickets. The Ashes 2010: Spicy pitch will not hinder England, says Andy Flower
  • That was the abode of the humble groundsman who tended the pitch where the then leading players of the country came for practice.
  • It is a scene of almost bucolic splendour - a groundsman astride his motorised roller putting the finishing touches to a beautifully manicured cricket ground nestling on the fringes of an attractive county town.
  • Despite the best efforts of groundsman Kenny Shepherd, the Arnside ground could not produce a wicket with pace.
  • José Mourinho buttered up Sir Alex Ferguson, claimed the Old Trafford groundsman was his friend, spent every minute of Wednesday's match in the technical area, lost 2-0, muttered darkly about Inter's policy failings, tipped United for the "quintuple" and then allegedly punched an abusive United supporter as he boarded the team coach. Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
  • He started work as a groundsman with the local authority straight from school and has never looked back.
  • Head groundsman Ralph White manned the chipper with two other groundstaff for four hours.
  • The groundsman smiles a slightly toothless grin. Times, Sunday Times

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