patch
Example Sentences
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Some of these areas are just patches of turf with Adirondack chairs — popular with exploration-minded toddlers, or kids with a ball.
From Los Angeles Times
A sustained increase in oil prices could potentially lift the level of capital spending this year in Canada’s energy patch, which right now is estimated at C$1.5 billion, he says.
My brown fitted pants were heavily patched and the shirt I was wearing probably hadn’t been washed, well, ever if the dark yellow stains covering it were any indication.
From Literature
Afterwards, the surgeon admitted he did find endometriosis, but claimed it was "only a small patch" that had been removed and she would be "absolutely fine" now.
From BBC
So Gonzalez called Poppy and received an estrogen patch and progesterone, she said.
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