Sentence examples for a patch of poison from inspiring English sources

In 1934, at age 9, she came up with a clever but shortsighted plan to get out of school: roll around in a patch of poison ivy.

The two men are so obsessed with the sport that they once played a grudge match in a patch of poison oak after a three-mile trail run in the mountains.

She took the first-time tracker along Shane Hobel's route: past a vine-engulfed water tower and a patch of poison ivy, through the woods — Panther Pass, she called it — and into the parking lot, to the tree that the panther had allegedly scratched.

Because between the 14-hour car ride to your destination and Bob falling into a patch of poison ivy, you'll want the memories to last forever.

That triggers something else and then, so then maybe my Crohn's is fine, but now I've got all these pimple-like sores that itch like I feel like I'm sitting in a patch of poison ivy.

We've paddled across the river, fought our way through a thick patch of poison ivy, and have begun dragging our boats down the shoulder of Interstate 70.

Devotees of ceramics will find much to admire, and as always, there are odd-duck surprises, like a patch of Ming embroidery titled "Five Poisons," which looks as bright as a board game but is woven with scorpions, snakes and poison toads.

The list goes on: a flat at an inopportune moment, a skid on a patch of motor oil during a descent, the occasional case of food poisoning, saddle sores, sleepless nights, failure to recuperate properly and poor team strategy.

When you find a patch of hoppers — small, lively black things, like crickets — then you dig trenches around the patch or spray them with poison from pumps supplied by the government.

I parked in a patch of shade.

"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.