Sentence examples for over a patch of from inspiring English sources

With their chessboards and time clocks, the crew took over a patch of the park by 141st Street from the purse-snatchers, holdup artists and addicts who smoked crack in the park restroom.

— Brian Seibert This weekend, the twenty-third installment of the Theatre for the New City's summer-welcoming performance fair, Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, takes over a patch of East Tenth Street between First and Second Avenues, for three afternoons of dance, theatre, film, music, and comedy.

They squelch over a patch of boggy ground.

The trick was simple enough, paving over a patch of land to make a parking lot.

Kerkdijk pointed to two black bulls bent over a patch of grass.

In one window, a statute of St. Francis Xavier towered over a patch of wheatgrass.

Metallica was touring in support of Master of Puppets when the band's bus rolled over on a patch of icy road outside of Stockholm.

After the September 26 performance in Stockholm, the band's bus rolled over on a patch of icy road the following morning.

In December 2006, their tour van rolled over on a patch of ice after leaving a performance in Bryan, Texas, on the way back to Austin, but with no serious injuries.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are at loggerheads over Nagorno-Karabakh, a patch of land that Armenia wrested from Azerbaijan in the early 1990s.

Laid over the photo, filling a patch of gloomy sky, is a text describing a very different scene: a Pacific idyll of blue waters and lush vegetation.