Sentence examples for patch of earth from inspiring English sources

The Ellis Island Immigration Museum recalls a time when this deserted patch of earth in New York Harbor was teeming with immigrants waiting to be processed and sent ashore as Americans.

More than 600,000 people share this patch of earth called Monmouth County.

That the revolution is riding in on a $25 billion company gentrifying a patch of earth called the Bay Area and displacing people of color in the process goes unmentioned in the manifesto.

He said he regarded himself as "wholly and irreversibly English and England as having been perhaps the most fertile patch of earth in the whole history of human ideas".

Specifically the trees on Broadway can set the collective imagination racing backward 250 years to a period when this very patch of earth was forested.

A small patch of earth is eventually exposed.

Saramago concluded his talk: "Every man has his own patch of earth to cultivate.

Vegetables dug freely out of a patch of earth now cost half a day's income.

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Now, this barren patch of earth is, at least in name and spirit, a golf course.

Carved Yoruba house posts turn a patch of earth into a royal enclosure.