Sentence examples for a tiny patch of land from inspiring English sources

It was built in 1818 by two of the martyrs, George Loveless and Thomas Standfield on a tiny patch of land they leased beside the latter's cottage home.

Lebanon's government and military consider Hezbollah a legitimate resistance force to Israel, which they say occupies a tiny patch of land called Shebaa Farms.

Lucy is relatively lucky: her family has given her a tiny patch of land and a hut where she can live.

An acoustic ecologist and the author, with John Grossmann, of the book "One Square Inch of Silence: One Man's Quest to Preserve Quiet" (Free Press), Hempton established a tiny patch of land in 2005 that he believes he can protect from all human noise: jets, vehicles, machinery.

And when he discovers that this rock in the center of his view marks a tiny patch of land that is not, legally, his, and that the owner's name has been blacked out on the property deed, he decides to fill the gap in the official record.

Even in the final period, when the Byzantine empire's political power waned and its territory shrank to a tiny patch of land at the intersection between Europe and Asia, the cultural influence of its artists, architects and craftsmen remained undiminished.Museum exhibitions with a Byzantine theme tend to be hugely popular.

An occasional column about the pleasures and pains of cultivating a (tiny) patch of soil.

I don't mean farmers or allotment gardeners – just city dwellers who have a tiny patch of earth or terrace.

For example, while playing a human based in sub-Saharan Africa, I spent forty-five yearakinging sand away from a tiny patch of arable land until I was shot to death by a member of the local militia.

So they keep one foot in the countryside, holding onto their tiny patch of land and never making the break.

"I told the girls to mow it and till it under," he said of the tiny patch of land clotted with wild mustard and other weeds.