Sentence examples for patch of the planet from inspiring English sources
But isn't that the true essence of golf, that the mightiest and the meekest can occasionally occupy the same small patch of the planet?
I think we shared a nostalgia for the same part of the world, even if that patch of the planet held a different significance for us.
So Naipaul describes: this lane, this cottage, this gardener, this view of Stonehenge, this tiny patch of the planet in which his narrator must learn, once more, to see.
He is a witness, nothing more, parachuting to a small, intimate patch of the planet at intervals and then relaying back, with a certain flourish, what he finds through his glossy color photographs.
Since then there has barely been a patch of the planet that has not welcomed this highly engaging presenter - whose TV journeys have taken him from pole to pole, across the Himalayas and the Sahara, and full circle around the Pacific.
He is, instead, acting on the premise that the most special, inimitable contribution a restaurant can make is to serve the food that is freshest and truest on its given patch of the planet, to sift through that region's flora and fauna for unfamiliar flavors, to scour its forgotten traditions for ingredients that cooks have stopped using.
Mysterious patches on the planet's core that dampen seismic waves could be the result of ancient seawater chemically reacting with iron under extreme conditions.
Governments, though concerned about their own patches of the planet, care little about other people's.
A report issued Aug. 27 by the United Nations mission in Gaza questioned whether the 139-square-mile area will be "a livable place" in 2020, citing shortages of food, water, electricity, jobs, hospital beds and classrooms amid an exploding population in what is already one of the most densely populated patches of the planet.
Congo and the nine nations around it sit on what may be the richest patch of this planet: there are diamonds, oil, uranium, gold, plentiful water, fertile land and exquisite wildlife.
I was visiting Oman's Musandam Peninsula – a remote patch of planet separated from the rest of the country by a corner of the UAE – while filming a new BBC series, Indian Ocean, which took me through 16 countries around the edge of our most glorious ocean.
