Sentence examples for A patch of soil from inspiring English sources

● Insects: Thousands of insects (and spiders) live in a patch of soil.

Dotting a patch of soil the size of a dining room table, they looked like small, uninteresting cabbages.

Sheldrake knelt down and brushed away leaves to reveal a patch of soil the size of a dinner plate.

The robot analyzed a patch of soil in the Gusev Crater and found it unusually rich in silica.

During one of his visits, Garner saw a patch of soil where a bulldozer had nicked the overgrown vegetation that fringed the lot.

The new efforts seek to read all the DNA in the bacterial communities found in a patch of soil or seawater or even the lining of the human gut.

— Water bottle in hand, Dennis Staley crouched over a patch of ground, cleared away surface soil with a finger and poured a couple of drops on the exposed layer.

A patch of contaminated soil was also removed.

Other people were jumping onto a patch of soft soil about two stories below.

The first color photography of the Spirit mission, made public on Tuesday, showed that the robotic rover was resting on a broad, ruddy plain of Mars among gray rocks of all sizes and shapes, streaks of windblown dust tracks, a patch of cohesive soil that looks like mud but cannot be and hills set against a pink sky on the distant horizon.

The trial is unusual in many ways: with 270 victims, it is the largest mass murder trial in British history, the first time a patch of overseas soil has been designated Scottish to allow such an event and the first Scottish murder trial to use judges instead of a jury.