lay a patch

Example Sentences

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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then Ace gave a shout, for down a hollow between two ridges to the north lay a patch of snow.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen

No glacier was visible now, however—only, on the rocky summit lay a patch or two of the last winter’s snow-drift, which was too deep for the summer sun to melt away.

From The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Then flat on the cheek lay a patch of brilliant colour, another on the mouth.

From The Common Law by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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