"piece of ground" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a particular area of land, for example, "The farmer had a small piece of ground near the river."
Such a no-count, lovely piece of ground!
The best wines taste like they come from one particular piece of ground, nowhere else.
I've never stood on a piece of ground as throbbingly, even pornographically, generative.
That would require either a piece of ground or a long-term commitment to a rooftop".
Growing anything requires a committed relationship to a piece of ground; growing trees requires a marriage.
It's a piece of ground I like to think I know well.
"And you're trained there is the enemy occupying a piece of ground.
We take that piece of ground out of production & promise the government we won't grow no more corn on it.
I was building the Folsoms' first house, on a piece of ground that Dee's rancher uncle had given him.
Not a nice piece of ground: it'd be a midwinter snow hole and a midsummer rock pile.
Any piece of ground that has remained frozen for at least two years is, by definition, permafrost.
