Sentence examples for this patch of land from inspiring English sources

We tried to sell this patch of land but no one would buy it.

This is not the first time someone has looked longingly at this patch of land.

The Guaraní's fight, meanwhile, is far broader than this patch of land.

He is a flesh-and-blood human being with a narrow, stubborn soul, surviving in fits and starts on this patch of land by the sea.

But the ground beneath the stones holds secrets, too — 5,000 years ago, this patch of land in Wiltshire, in southern England, was a burial place.

Recently, this patch of land, in law part of Georgia but in effect controlled by Russia, has become a new frontier between Russia and the West.

I FIRST CAME HERE, to this patch of dusty land 40 miles south of Tangier, 18 years ago.

Fellowes admits the chain of events that led to the birth of this bash on this patch of leafy land that belongs to the Shinnecock Indian community was "random".

"Not only that," he says, "there's this patch of wartorn land, directly facing Parliament, as if to say, 'Was it just to win dusty scraps of earth like this that these great imperialist wars were fought?'" He has also sought to address "what it means to put up a heroic monument in an age in which we no longer quite believe in heroism in the same way as the Victorians".

Right now, the 7,000 Israeli settlers occupy 23% of this teeming patch of land.

Looking at this scene, one couldn't help but think that Vieques's much debated future was here, in this rich patch of land.