Sentence examples for patch of bark from inspiring English sources

A large patch of bark is missing from the base of a dogwood tree at our family's cemetery plot.

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.

Done during or after one of Schwitters's repeated getaways to a remote Norwegian island, it replaces urban detritus with a frond of seaweed and a patch of bark, and adds flickering strokes of paint like water-reflected light.

To test their hypothesis, Ferrenberg and Mitton put 22 pine beetles on a rough patch of bark, where all but one beetle hung onto the surface.

When they placed the beetles on a smooth patch of bark however, all of the beetles fell off in less than one minute.

In winter the tree maintains a tidy appearance enlivened by flaking patches of bark in muted shades of tan and gray.

They say early symptoms tend to be limited to bleeding lesions of dark, sticky liquid from patches of bark on infected trees' stems or branches.

They include: thinning or yellowing of foliage; bark fissures measuring 5-10cm; woodpecker activity because the birds strip away small patches of bark in order to extract the borers; and D-shaped holes about 3mm in diameter.

The symptoms of this infection include the death of roots and of patches of bark, dark spots near the base of the trunk, yellowing of leaves and in subsequent years, the death of branches and sometimes the whole tree.

In June 2009, a wood chisel was used to remove patches of bark and extract samples of xylem tissue (∼1.5 cm long × 0.5 cm wide × 0.5 cm deep) from the trunks of five trees per rootstock.

On field trips to the New Jersey Pine Barrens or other woodlands, Mr. Kirkwood recalled, Mr. McHarg never adopted the scuffed-boots style of a tree hugger, instead sticking to his tweed jackets and chain-smoked cigarettes -- even as he directed his students' gazes to some particular patch of tree bark or rock.