Sentence examples for a patch of terra from inspiring English sources

And even as polls showed that support in South Carolina was flagging, he arrived there with an arsenal of optimistic quips about shaking the snow off his suit, moving past a bump in the road and onto a smooth highway, forsaking an alien land for a patch of terra firma that was clearly "Bush country".

There was actually a non-serious parallel to Liberland last year, when a Virginian claimed a patch of terra nullis desert between Egypt and Sudan, Bir Tawal, just so that his daughter could be the Princess of North Sudan for a bit.

These last survivors equate life on land with religious integrity, vowing not to abandon their diminishing patch of terra firma.

I parked in a patch of shade.

"Find a patch of sunlight, my boy.

He landed on a patch of grass.

He gestured toward a patch of grass.

Here is a patch of burlap.

Find a patch of clover.

Cut a patch of leather.

Plant a patch of pumpkins.