Sentence examples for by a patch of from inspiring English sources

It is now covered by a patch of shoulder-high weeds.

Today, it's marked by a patch of troubled white water, which we studiously avoid.

The big soft maple tree had been cut down, replaced by a patch of Sam's rhubarb.

Hence the start of the new film, when a black screen is relieved by a patch of flickering flame.

The species is also distinguished by a patch of bare skin at the base of its bill.

Its modest campus, surrounded by a patch of green grass, belies the scope of the ambition at work here.

It is possible that Bromus tectorum was historically present within the "uninvaded" area and was being displaced by competitive plants, or, by chance, a patch of highly competitive plants precluded the colonization of B. tectorum in that small area.

Elie Saab gave his version of fashion sobriety, which was to cover the skin but focus on the bosoms — by rounding the bodice or even by putting a patch of decorative fabric in the two crucial spots.

His version of the American nature poem is called "Nature Poem" and composed entirely of film titles: "Till the Clouds Roll By / A Patch of Blue / How Green Was My Valley / Splendor in the Grass".

In his orchard at Down House, Darwin established a "weed garden" by clearing a patch of sod and tracking the germination and growth of every seed that sprouted there.

In the second row we found a marker someone had made by stripping a patch of bark off a log and then driving nails partway in and bending them down flat so they made the letters rev ames.