Sentence examples for sandy patches from inspiring English sources

Sandy patches appearing as grains were described in 112 (14%) participants and sandy patches appearing as homogenous, yellow areas were described in 128 (16%).

They are also in accord with Ms. Tyson's Surrealist views in the show, like "Landscape Contemplating Itself," a hill dressed in green with yellow sandy patches that sprout a cozy pair of brown tree-toadstool forms.

By the afternoon, a dozen volunteers, some wearing yellow Occupy Sandy patches, stood outside a taped-off area around the church as fire marshals and detectives from the police arson and explosion squad surveyed the damage for clues to the fire's origin.

Specifically, we tested whether short-term colonization patterns on 3 types of artificial substrata encompassing a range of complexities, including a leaf-like unit, a cushion-shaped leaf-like unit and a cushion-shaped unit, were consistent across 4 adjacent habitats: macroalgal-dominated bottoms, urchin-grazed barrens, seagrass meadows and sandy patches, at Gran Canaria (eastern Atlantic).

After germination, seedlings were planted on sandy patches and on rock within the same area, and survived plants were collected five years later for measurements of the size of the entire root complex and analysis of individual morphological and architectural root traits.

The largest abundances of colonizers, particularly Echinodermata, were found on sandy patches relative to other habitats, suggesting that the 'availability', rather than any particular attribute related to the 'acceptability' of artificial collectors, e.g. its structural complexity, was the main driver of patterns of faunal short-term colonization.

The school is really little more than a sandy patch of ground under an acacia tree.

A month before the birth, his father, Aristides Inácio da Silva, left the family and their sandy patch of farmland in the state of Pernambuco.

It is a sandy patch of land surrounded by water in which bare-chested boys in dugout canoes paddle among the hyacinths.

WHEN a local developer announced triumphantly that a new Wal-Mart would rise here on a sandy patch of earth along the Mississippi, it was presented as a good thing, a bit of progress that would bring in much-needed tax dollars and jobs and transformation where the rundown St. Thomas public-housing project once stood.

It sits on a sandy patch of seafloor next to coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.