lay a patch

Example Sentences

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I wanted to grab the wheel and lay a patch.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Soundness in painting consists in being able to lay a patch of color having exactly the right shape and tint.

From The Intellectual Life by Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

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

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)