Sentence examples for a patch of turf from inspiring English sources

They are no longer the insecure newcomers, compelled to fight for a patch of turf.

At best we hope to stumble across something pristine on the planet, a patch of turf protected from human excess.

In "The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle," he echoes biblical incantation to emphasize how a patch of turf has been made sacred by a legacy of human presence: The Fathers and the Great-grandfathers, they are out in the paddocks all the time, they live out there, at the place of the Rail Fence, of the Furrows Under Grass, at the place of the Slab Chimney.

For every mumbler in the team line-ups come Friday evening, the man staring silently at a patch of turf a few feet in front of him, there will be an Alun Wyn Jones: wild-eyed and roaring, arms physically binding him to his team-mates as Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau binds him to those singing with similar passion in the stands.

Janelli says that wireless names can act as welcome mats, luring their beholder into a store or a discussion, or as gargoyles, patrolling a patch of virtual turf.

He arrived late to a patch of moderate turf already cordoned off by another Mormon scion with very good hair, a very blonde wife and a very large brood of absurdly attractive children.

There's even an ATM machine and a patch of Astro Turf at a trailer called Bar-B-Que-T on South Congress at East Monroe.

In 1990, while working on another installation, they noticed a patch of yellowing turf where the ladder had leaned against a grassy incline.

Half a world away on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, the ragtag group of players who make up the national team train twice a week on an uneven patch of turf barely half the size of a regulation field.

That year, Lusby Simpson, an architect, won a competition for what, after revisions, became the park of the present day, replacing the original iron fence with a stone balustrade, raising the entire level four feet and creating a simple patch of turf in the middle, two steps down.

Staff had to clear the pitch of bloodied tissues and pour water on a bloodied patch of turf before play could resume.