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The phrase "a patch of sunlight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small area where sunlight is shining, often in a poetic or descriptive context.
Example: "The cat lay lazily in a patch of sunlight that streamed through the window."
Alternatives: "a beam of sunlight" or "a spot of sunlight".
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"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.
Find a patch of sunlight and bask in it".
Sonia will often drag her blanket, mat and toy out and into a patch of sunlight.
"I'm quick," he said, sitting in a patch of sunlight in his unfurnished den.
Now, have you ever watched your dog make a bee-line for a patch of sunlight and lie there contented?
I took the phone in the kitchen, standing in a patch of sunlight on the tile floor.
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As the title suggests, the photograph depicts a weed growing in a small patch of sunlight between concrete slabs in an otherwise dimly lit, overgrown side street.
Wall suggested a small area between the garden and the stairway leading to the deck, where a lilac basked in a tiny patch of sunlight.
"It's just about my favorite painting in the world". He tells how a character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time dies in a fit upon looking at the pure beauty of a yellow patch of sunlight Vermeer painted on a wall in the picture.
But first, he has got to navigate the raft to the further bank, and on to the narrow walkway on the far side of the canal, and position 40 bunches of daffs in a little patch of sunlight that trickles in from a vent in the road overhead.
A small coil, like a polished tree root, motionless amid tangled foliage in a sheltered patch of sunlight.
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