Sentence examples for steep patch from inspiring English sources

I slipped on an icy and steep patch near the top, and after a morning trying to master this run, it was a relief when we stopped for a snack at Rifugio Duca d'Aosta, about halfway up the mountain, near the top of the Rumerlo chairlift.

The blast of giddy mania that burst from Centre Court at 5.25pm on Sunday, sweeping across the nation through living rooms, pubs and sunlit gardens, hit the steep patch of grass above the All England Club's biggest screen like a shockwave a fragment of a second after Novak Djokovic's backhand cannoned into the net.

The track south, lumpy and steep in patches, climbs above the eastern shore of the reservoir before descending to Derwent dam, where you can spy hunting sparrowhawks and, in early summer, dazzling rhododendron blossoms.

Furthermore, the relationship between area and number of indicators was less steep in patches smaller than 1 1.5 ha.

A steep pitch angle during ascent indicates that they encountered a prey patch and a shallow pitch angle contributes to movement into a more profitable area in the following dive, due to increasing the horizontal distance [2].

Even when the area is experiencing a drought, the steep cliffs -- patch-worked with greenery and draped with skinny ribbons of white water -- are a magnificent sight to behold.

In his "Houses by the Sea at Vietri," the sunlit villa in the foreground, the ramshackle buildings that go racing up the steep hillside and the patch of blue water that calls us back and back to the bottom of the canvas all suggest the pleasure of being out of school.

Yet, as I approached the village of Slad itself, a parting in the mist allowed me a bucolic vista of steep, rounded little hills patch-worked with buttercups and intensely green grass.

Trails can be narrow, steep and have icy patches, even in summer.

Forest: In the traditional use of forests on steep slopes larger forest patches are never struck at once.

Photograph by C. Reichel, Safien Platz, January 2012   (2) Forest: In the traditional use of forests on steep slopes larger forest patches are never struck at once.