lay a patch

Example Sentences

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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before him lay a patch of gray-green bay, flanked on either side by wharves upon which two black-hulled lumber schooners were disgorging their resinous cargo.

From Broken to the Plow by Dobie, Charles Caldwell

Long zigzags up the slope brought us to the top of a notch, where at the right lay a patch of snow.

From Tales of lonely trails by Grey, Zane

Straight opposite, in the middle of all this forest verdure, there lay a patch of white, like driven snow.

From Immensee by Storm, Theodor

Fleeting as it had been it showed me that between us lay a patch of saw-palmetto, and this was awkward as I could get no idea of its depth.

From Wings of the Wind by Harris, Credo Fitch