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
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)
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
