Sentence examples for a patch of space from inspiring English sources

Back on Earth, the team pointed the telescope at a patch of space strewn with stars and waited for pictures.

With Prospect Park awash with joggers and dog walkers, Frisbee throwers and sunbathers, he stakes out a patch of space on the pastoral sweep of the Long Meadow and divides the players into teams.

That field just below the Seventy-seventh-Street on-ramp, nestled beneath the big trees, is a perfect example of a patch of space that was once dust and is now prime green.

Each competitor is assigned a patch of space where they set up their equipment, gadgets and props.

Some of these monster black holes are relatively calm, but others, known as "active galactic nuclei," or AGN, can spew out more radiation than our entire galaxy does, and from a patch of space no larger than our solar system.

The hoverfly Eristalis has an optical resolution limit of approximately 1° [ 9], meaning that each ommatidium (facet) of the compound eye views a patch of space 1° across.

It is little more than a patch of open space near the intersection of Depot Road and Route 110.

(And maybe a little illegal: Can you really profit off a patch of public space? Technically, they're not buying and selling the spots, just information about them).

If there's a door they're eager to pass through, and hundreds of equally or even more important people are there, too, they get as close to the door as they can, claim a patch of available space as though it had been reserved for them, and maintain enough distance to pretend that they are not in a line.

You don't even need a spare room, just a patch of open space will do.

We occupy a limited patch of space (I have never believed in travel) for a limited stretch of time.