The phrase "a patch of lawn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small area of grass, typically in a garden or yard.
Example: "The children played on a patch of lawn while their parents set up the picnic."
Alternatives: "a piece of grass" or "a small area of turf."
Student protesters turned a patch of lawn into a sanctuary free of dissenting opinions and journalists.
Banks was taken to a patch of lawn next to the hotel and asked to jog to a nearby tree.
Bryant staggered, then reeled and fell on a patch of lawn overhung by a bird-of-paradise bush.
Our Japanese gardener, whom I called Ojisan, which means uncle, would sit cross-legged on the ground and painstakingly cut a patch of lawn with a small sickle.
He said that although it did a respectable job on a patch of lawn, the family gardener's reaction reinforced Dr. Winston's point.
The house, made entirely of sheet metal and aluminum, stood on a patch of lawn outside the workshop of Alain Banneel, the craftsman who helped restore it.
Four months ago, according to Kathy Crouse, a retired American Airlines employee, what appeared to be a gas leak caused a patch of her lawn to turn yellow, and bubbles formed on the surface when it rained.
The dedication date is yet to be announced, but already foundations have been built on a patch of open lawn between the main existing memorial to Britain's war dead and a grove of saplings.As well as providing a focus for commemoration, the finished memorial will pose difficult questions about the war's legacy.
The next day, at the Maracaibo Country Club, a patch of green lawn surrounded by red-baked wasteland where Chávez was to be picked up and driven to a nearby rest home, two dozen or so peasants had gathered to stare at him through a chain-link fence.
A short distance away is a second complex, featuring 50 "villas" that face the golf course and offer either a patch of private lawn (with a picnic table and chairs) or a porch.
Santana followed the chase for a few yards to a deserted patch of lawn behind a pawn shop and a car dealership.
