lay a patch
Example Sentences
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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Straight opposite, in the middle of all this forest verdure, there lay a patch of white, like driven snow.
From Immensee by Theodor Storm
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A gate opened to a walk leading to the driveway, and on either side lay a patch of sod, outlined by a deep hedge of bright gold.
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
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 Zane Grey
