How to Use thatch in a Sentence

thatch

1 of 2 verb

• This shelter can be thatched with grass or mats, or it can be buried with a thick coat of leaf litter.
  — Popular Science, 28 May 2020
• Yard waste is defined as leaves, pine needles, pinecones, acorns, twigs, dead plant matter and thatch.
  — courant.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Their eyelids are thatched with the loveliest lashes God ever loomed.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• Unless your lawn is especially prone to thatch, don't bag your grass clippings.
  — Mia Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2022
• Their former homes had thatched roofs that dispersed the heat and were sheltered by fruit trees, residents said.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
• Each house except for a few lone contrarians is oriented east to west and thatched.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 June 2024
• The former looks like a Caribbean hideaway with huts which are built from bamboo and have thatched roofs.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The cottages had thatched roofs, open-air layouts and no electricity, just butane lamps.
  — Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
• The entrance usually faced the sea, the roof was thatched, and walls and floors were made from split bamboo that allowed breezes to move freely in and out.
  — Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2020
• One ‘ewaa is thatched with tule reed and the others have been made using broom baccharis, which grows on site, Cohen said.
  — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
• Many homeowners have heard that mulching clippings contributes to thatch buildup in a lawn, but that concern is overstated.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2024
• British roofs devolved from tile to thatch — perishable, flammable, insect-infested — and their floors reverted to plain earth.
  — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
• The main lodges and villas, designed by Habita Architects, have thatched roofs in the shape of nón lá conical hats.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
• The Tropical Ocean looks like a Caribbean hideaway with huts which are built from bamboo and have thatched roofs.
  — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• For example, participants may be asked to look at a video and press a button every five minutes, tasks thatch have no intrinsic meaning to them.
  — Nicola Ballhausen, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
• The ceilings and part of the lounge decor are fashioned from Phragmites australis, a reed used by local communities for thatching and crafting.
  — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2026
• Expansive overwater, beach, and hilltop villas have thatched roofs, glass bottoms, plush four-poster beds, private pools, and stylish driftwood furniture.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
• This centuries-old eelgrass thatching technique will restore and protect the historic windswept home framed with the wood of shipwrecks for another 350 years.
  — Anna Fiorentino, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
• Wear them while weeding, raking, planting, thatching, and scooping debris into yard waste bags to avoid punctures, scratches, splinters, and dirty fingernails.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• The 57-year-old is one of a small remaining group of professional Dutch reed cutters, harvesting, cleaning and drying reed that is used to thatch houses.
  — Peter Dejong, Fox News, 2 May 2018
• Sign up And in Shirakawa-go, the old communal system of yui – in which up to 200 villagers cooperate to thatch a roof in a single day – lives on.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 Oct. 2024
• The Rosewood property employs recycled plastic for all the thatching, reinforcing it with natural woods from the island.
  — Alesandra Dubin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• Wanosato is a traditional inn of unusual charm, and offers simple accommodation in either the main house, or in two beautiful gassho-zukuri bungalows, which have thatched roofs covered in lichen.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2018
• These include over 140 species traditionally used by the Chumash, such as tule grass for matting and thatching houses, and elderberries for crafting whistles and bows.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• Comedy, drama, trauma, and sisterly love were all thatched together to make the new Netflix romantic comedy, Voicemails for Isabelle.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 June 2026
• Cool-season grasses, including Kentucky Bluegrass, Tall Fescue, and Perennial Ryegrass, are best aerated or de-thatched at the end of summer when temperatures begin to cool.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025

thatch

2 of 2 noun

• Mice were living in the thatch of the roof.
• We ate lunch in the shade under the thatch of a beachfront restaurant.
• Some amount of thatch in your lawn is okay.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• Smooth over some of the grass thatch with a rake.
  — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Feb. 2026
• Those knifelike blades cut through the sod and pull out thatch.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• Use a rake with short straight tines to pull up thatch from small areas.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
• Use a rake with short straight tines to pull up thatch from small areas.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
• Mow the grass and rake away any excess clippings and thatch.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• Leaving grass clippings does not lead to thatch buildup in the lawn.
  — Betty Cahill, The Denver Post, 14 June 2019
• His hair is still an enviable thatch, but now streaked with some gray.
  — Michael Hainey, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017
• His body droops and his face sags, jowls draping under a thatch of beard.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Chinch bugs overwinter in moist, deep thatch.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
• More glass and tiles than bamboo and thatch—super-clean, slick.
  — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• Step one is to remove most of the dead grass and thatch from the area to be seeded.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
• At the age of four or five, a friend of mine lived in a small house made from thatch and bramble.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• His looks, other than high cheekbones and a thatch of dark curls, were a blur to me.
  — Bonnie Altucher, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Across the glade a chorus of bleats drifts from a crumbling hut, shaped from thatch and earth.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Do this by raking deeply into the soil to break up that thatch layer.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
• Do this by raking deeply into the soil to break up that thatch layer.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025
• Sycamore leaves are large and when ground up leaves lots of residues that would contribute to thatch.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2022
• This foliage and dead thatch ignites very quickly and burns fast.
  — Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 21 May 2026
• Each house will have a thatch roof, four beds and no air-conditioning.
  — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 5 July 2017
• Look at the layers of soil and grass and measure how thick the layer of thatch is.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Sep. 2025
• Look at the layers of soil and grass and measure how thick the layer of thatch is.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
• The thatch of dark, glossy hair on the top of his head had gone untouched since mid-March.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• These caterpillars set up homes in silken tunnels built in the thatch of the grass.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 22 Aug. 2020
• When this happens, the thatch will suffocate and starve your lawn.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
• Simply run the machine back and forth across the lawn and its spinning tines will pull out the thatch.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2019
• This is often caused by a build up of thatch or by overwatering.
  — Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 12 July 2026
• The problem was, most of that wasn’t thatch, just last season’s dead grass, mostly blades.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2019