Sentence examples for odd patch from inspiring English sources

In 2009, Loach, another visitor to this odd patch of Ecuador in London, made Looking for Eric, which starred Cantona.

We haven't had any thaw at all, with lots of powder and only the odd patch of ice.

But even in midwinter, with the odd patch of ice on the trail, the half-hour climb is manageable.

England and Wales will be largely dry on Saturday, although the north and west may see the odd patch of drizzle.

It's an odd patch of England: verdant loveliness abounds, yet parts are scarred by Victorian quarrying and carved through by the M1 and the Midland main-line railway from London St Pancras to Leicester and Sheffield.

The odd patch of sustained visiting pressure apart, Newcastle largely continued doing a very good job of strictly rationing Swansea's possession by gobbling up all those second balls and this strategy – a hallmark Benítez game plan – paid dividends when they finally took the lead for the first time under their new manager's charge.

The immediate vicinity is grungy urban: great graffiti, scruffy industrial buildings, lots of rubbish, odd patches of flowers.

Odd patches of dull shining water rested on the sand and shingle, barely enough to paddle through, let alone return an absent father.

Odd patches of hair would grow through, but when they did, the skin would blister and I'd have to shave it off, or it would send me into anaphylactic shock.

Farther north still, along some stretches of the river near Luang Prabang, only odd patches of cultivated land give any hint of human settlement.But that is changing fast.

If there is a single principle that has kept Swans alive and relevant through some odd patches, it may be the idea of farming nothing out and simply working, working, and working until something emerges.