Sentence examples for patch of weed from inspiring English sources

The little Mexican amphibian, almost extinct in the wild and unique with its external gills like tiny branches, sits in a patch of weed.

And yet all Harb wanted at this moment, as he regarded the leaders and gutters for imperfections and squinted at the little patch of weed that had arrogantly asserted itself near the stand of bushes next to the driveway, was to escape from the confines of this establishment as decently and quickly as was humanly possible".

No, it would be a scrappy patch of weeds.

Many farmers think that if they leave a patch of weeds it will take over the farm.

"Now, this is wood sorrel," Brill was saying, bending over a little patch of weeds at the edge of the path that led toward the Park entrance at West 107th Street.

Constable was born there in 1776, and his earliest sketches include scenes of the house, garden and surrounding farmland – including the oldest drawing Roodhouse has traced, which shows an overgrown patch of weeds and brambles.

It used to be possible to run from the veranda across the dusty end of the driveway, through a sandy, trampled patch of weeds and wild strawberries, and then jump no, actually, wade into the lake.

It used to be possible to run from the veranda across the dusty end of the driveway, through a sandy, trampled patch of weeds and wild strawberries, and then jump — no, actually, wade — into the lake.

Around 1 15 p.m., a Washingtonian posted a picture on Twitter of Rusty in a patch of weeds in the Adams Morgan district, not far from the 163-acre zoo, which was created in 1889 by an act of Congress.

A few years ago, I spent a day with a real bass fisherman, a professional, watching him work Louisiana bayous with dexterous flips of a jig that he would drop into the water within a half-inch of whatever patch of weeds or dock or submerged log he picked.

But I'm hoping that by then, rain will have softened the soil, making it easy to stick dozens of alliums and about a hundred Virginia bluebells into what is now just a dried-up patch of weeds in my barnyard garden.