Sentence examples for patch of park from inspiring English sources

Older men and women with hats and picnic baskets, returnees every year, all looking as if they owned their patch of park, asking who brought the corkscrew and what's the name of that song.

When Bill Crain, a West Side resident and father of three, gazes at these same fields, he sees a patch of park worn down by cleats but open to anyone with a bat and ball.

Right at the center of town, where Main Street gave rise to a lofty hill, not one but three big white churches stood sentinel over a triangular patch of park dubbed God's Acre.

The two men met at the East Ninety-sixth Street entrance and used binoculars to point out a so-called spindle tree, which had somehow sprouted on a triangular patch of Park — an urban Galápagos — that was cut off on all three sides by traffic.

Then, by chance, he befriends a forceful Trinidadian called Chuck, who umpires the cricket games played by various ragbag teams composed of immigrants from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent and England, who congregate weekly in a scrubby patch of park on Staten Island.

And they are ideal spaces where children can engage with nature, says author Melissa Harrison, whose novel Clay revolves around a young boy who finds sanctuary in a hidden wild corner of a city: "A patch of park or verge, crowded with weeds and minibeasts, may not look like much to you or me – but to a child it can be a magical world".

The patches of park that are packed with people when the weather is kinder were abandoned.

The day wasn't officially over until Mr. Ingraham, beyond tallying the 25 species they had seen in a brief visit to just two tiny patches of park, checked to see where their finds would rank among city records: "Earliest sighting of an ocola skipper; first multiple sighting of white M hairstreaks; first North American sighting of a European large white.

He said this patch of green, now a park land, was the "death strip" and patrolled by guard dogs.

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.

Once again the game moved, to its present patch of the park.