Sentence examples for a damp patch from inspiring English sources

The quick had complained to the umpires about a damp patch on the crease after bowling three balls of the second over of the day.

She quotes Katharine Whitehorn, a fellow British journalist, on the misconception of that decade as merely "a damp patch between the battleground of the Forties and the fairground of the Sixties".

"I don't think many people here watch Bake Off," she says when she opens the door and leads me inside to a tiny kitchen overlooking a damp patch of garden.

Even birds benefit; in the Cambridgeshire Fens, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds uses them to monitor corncrakes hiding in reed beds.More quotidian applications make use of subtle temperature differences, such as those created near leaky windows and doors, or along a length of pipe in which there is a blockage or a damp patch.

His trousers had a damp patch on the right hip.

He pivots on the spot and, in a grandiose gesture with his hands, points out to you a damp patch.

While it's true that clubbing, as an abstract idea rather than a sweatily concrete reality, might be going through a bit of a damp patch, it's not all so bad.

In 1500 years when I am as old as them (HA, HA) I plan to go the third way and have kids and wear long dresses and take them to some vaguely threatening forest, to a damp patch of pine needles (I'm from Canada) where I'll tell them stories and only let them play with a wagon, wood blocks, and "found toys".