Sentence examples for patch of the city from inspiring English sources
Instead, the war is progressing in slow motion, in small battles over one patch of the city at a time.
He figured he could ride his trusty five-speed bike and set up on some quiet patch of the city.
On a more profound level, she mourns the transformation of a patch of the city that, in her eyes, has seemingly overnight become disrupted and ever less neighborly.
Mr. Turner was shot in the back around midnight near the corner of 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, a violent patch of the city plagued by a longtime feud between rival street gangs.
Under his plan, Mailer explained, a geriatric patch of the city "might wish to purchase massive police protection," while a younger, hipper one would be free to legalize LSD.
Mrs. Clinton ate lunch with troops from New York at an American headquarters in downtown Baghdad in a walled-off and heavily guarded patch of the city known as the green zone.
In these edgier patches of the city, whose schemers and dreamers were immortalized in the early 1960s by the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, a new Rome is taking shape.
It seemed that Lower Manhattan's world-famous skyline was now reflected only on the arm patches of the city's rescue workers.
A law professor, he is currently also a state senator representing both the richest and the poorest patches of the city.The result is a candidate who moves between posh liberal suburbs and black city churches with ease.
On a recent Saturday afternoon I set out to explore South Ozone Park in Queens, in particular a stretch whose racial composition — according to recent census data, about a quarter white, a quarter Asian, 10 percent black and 11 percent biracial, with 30 percent of residents belonging to the statistical category of "other" — makes it one of the three most diverse patches of the city.
As an urgent step to bring relief to the hottest patches of the city, Michael O'Brien of the planning department urged planting crews to avoid our traditional skyline tree, the palm, and is calling instead for cooling broad-leaf shade trees.
