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