Sentence examples for a wide patch of from inspiring English sources

You don't need to put out a shingle to guess that Bella and James are a match: the burdens of identity and notable ancestry form a wide patch of common ground.

Elsewhere here at Iraq's largest and most prominent university, a red ribbon cordons off a wide patch of ground where mines were very likely planted by Republican Guard soldiers when they used the university as a staging area last spring.

The gleaming white, 80-yard-long inflatable hovered just above a wide patch of gravel.

The head's skin is bright yellow except for two large, circular patches of black skin located just behind the eye and containing the ear; only a thin, 2 mm wide patch of yellow skin on the crown prevents the two black patches from connecting.

The drift rate depends on the parameters of food distribution that animals are acclimated to (e.g. small or wide patch of food).

It was already twilight, so we decided to camp out on a 10ft-wide patch of land, the only ground available.

A kilometer-wide patch of frozen water at the edge of the planet's southern polar cap was exposed when an upper layer of carbon dioxide ice ("dry ice") evaporated.

• This may seem like a lot of fuss over a 10-foot-wide patch of curbless sidewalk.

They rented a private jet and flew over a one-kilometre-wide patch of the North Atlantic.

We climb above the tree line to a boulder-strewn plateau with wide patches of snow and precipitous ravines.

On Aug. 28, the city's Department of Business Services mailed to the office of Gov. George E. Pataki 470 pages of reasons why the state should create an Empire Zone out of an 18-block-wide patch of Chinatown and the Lower East Side.