Sentence examples for a patch of sod from inspiring English sources

In his orchard at Down House, Darwin established a "weed garden" by clearing a patch of sod and tracking the germination and growth of every seed that sprouted there.

Inspectors were at a loss to explain the discrepancy until the Clinton administration made available to Hans Blix, then the I.A.E.A.'s director, a series of satellite photos that showed, first, a waste-storage facility, then a row of trees tall enough to screen the facility from the road to the reprocessing plant, then finally a patch of fresh sod where the facility had been buried.

He nourishes the roots with rinse water from the dinner dishes and then, come spring, trims them and sets them, with their leaves intact, in the middle of his family's Seder platter; a bit of commemorative decoration he describes as "a little patch of sod with greens on top".

HUDSON HOTEL What had been an outdoor bar on a second-story terrace is being converted into Tequila Park, a patch of Baja beachfront, with sod, not sand, but plenty of color.

(866 495-4885 www.gwlittle.com A PATCH OF GREEN -- Forget newspaper; these plush sod patches are a much prettier -- not to mention neater -- way to housetrain a dog.

Whether you live with a garden that has roared into maturity or with only a patch of bare ground newly carved out of the sod, what you need for the slack season is a pile of books in which authority and suggestiveness wrestle for the upper hand.

I parked in a patch of shade.

"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.