Sentence examples for a patch of dark from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it was a patch of dark water he took for better air pressure.

Beyond the river was a patch of dark evergreen trees, probably cedar but too far away to tell.

Main character surveys himself and sees a patch of dark on his trousers "that could only be slothful urine".

"Here," he said, pointing to a patch of dark brown goo oozing from the tree a few feet above the ground.

An M.R.I. confirmed what the doctor surmised: near the bottom edge of the rib cage, within the spinal column, there was a patch of dark where there should be light.

The grave was a patch of dark earth and green grass, surrounded by the graves of veterans of earlier wars; little Memorial Day flags were planted in each of them and fluttered in the breeze of a beautiful Midwestern spring morning.

I once went with some friends to see a house where there was a patch of dark-stained wall with matted hair stuck to it, and a small, framed "Home Sweet Home" picture in the hallway was covered in rusty blood spatter.

Astronomers at the Space Telescopic Science Institute on the Johns Hopkins University campus used the Hubble to obtain the deepest telescopic view into the universe ever -- a million-second exposure of a small patch of dark sky in the constellation Fornax.

In "Moshekwa" the resolute face of a black man fills most of a large canvas with an aura intensified by the shifting tones of his skin, which culminates in a gorgeous patch of dark purple glowing from his forehead like a mark of nobility.

Along with detecting roughly 10,000 galaxies, the million-second exposure of a small patch of dark sky in the constellation Fornax captured objects a quarter as bright as previous surveys.

Hence, a peak in the data gives rise to a small connected patch of dark (or coloured) pixels that is easily perceived.