Sentence examples for a patch of yard from inspiring English sources
More than anything we wanted a house, a patch of yard and maybe a tree or two, but we couldn't get a loan big enough.
That is easier said than done in a place where even residents of modest means have long viewed a patch of yard and sky, a lemon tree and maybe even a swimming pool as all but a birthright, and the fight over Newhall Ranch is proof positive of how hard it will be to change the paradigm.
A picture window showed a patch of front yard large enough to accommodate a single agave plant.
House-proud for the first time in her life, she immediately planted corn, pumpkins and tomatoes on a patch of her yard.
Spread a handful of chia seeds evenly over a small patch of yard in a shaded area.
In a mangy patch of yard, there appeared to be a heap of two-by-fours, which revealed themselves, upon investigation, to be the remains of an outhouse that must have been blown down in a storm.
The stroller was intact, its wheel still lying in a patch of marigolds several yards back.
Then came the test result: the level of radioactive cesium in a patch of dirt just yards from where his 11-year-old son, Koshiro, played baseball was equal to those in some contaminated areas around Chernobyl.
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He pointed to a patch of still water 15 yards upstream.
Police arrived almost immediately and found Martin face-down and motionless in a patch of grass about 70 yards from the back porch of his father's girlfriend's house.
