Sentence examples for a patch of countryside from inspiring English sources

When ESPN decided to stage the 2001 X Games, it needed a city that could serve as a showcase for the telecast as well as a patch of countryside wild enough to challenge the nation's best downhill obstacle bikers.

A group of masked men approached the home that spread out over a patch of Kenyan countryside and crept up as silently as shadows.

South-east England is one of the most heavily populated parts of Europe but there is a significant patch of countryside on either side of the Sussex/Kent border that is strangely remote, both inland and on the coast, even though you are only two hours from London.

He was born in 1793, the son of Parker Clare, who was a casual farm laborer in Northamptonshire, a pretty but unspectacular patch of countryside in the Midlands.

Mr. Silver returned one sweltering day last month to the patch of countryside on the edge of town where, late in 1971, a lookout watched while five tombaroli, as tomb robbers are called here, stuck poles into the wet earth until they struck something underground.

And the moral is very sweet - that we must all cultivate our own gardens or our own patch of countryside rather than telling other people what to do.

Simple white homesteads dot the rolling hills of the Boland, the bucolic patch of countryside east of Cape Town.

I parked in a patch of shade.

"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.

He landed on a patch of grass.

He gestured toward a patch of grass.