Sentence examples for patch of weeds from inspiring English sources

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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.

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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".

Outside another drab development, overflowing garbage cans sat atop dusty patches of weeds and gravel.

But like the baseball cocaine cases in the 1980s, it is highly likely that other Kirk Radomskis are in other patches of weeds, and just when baseball would think it was safe to go outdoors again, another would pop up.

Matta-Clark had a video shot of him (by Jaime Davidovich) as a kind of hipster Harold Lloyd knocking on doors in Queens, trying to locate his properties, chalking off six-inch strips of driveway and peering through chain-link fences at patches of weeds that he determined were his.

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