Sentences with phrase «bare patch of»

You're eager to transform your yard from a bare patch of grass into a lush landscape where Fido can play fetch and Whiskers can smell the catnip.

We parked on a bare patch of dirt under a low - hanging tree, and I followed the Amazon up onto a long screened porch facing the driveway.

The cause of «fairy circles,» the name given to bare patches of soil that seem to form randomly across African grasslands, continues to baffle scientists.

Tens of thousands of the formations — bare patches of soil, 2 to 12 meters in diameter — freckle grasslands from southern Angola to northern South Africa, their perimeters often marked by a tall fringe of grass.

Fleas can cause a dog a lot of distress as they will lead to irritation, the dog will scratch, there can be hair loss which leads to bare patches of skin and there may be open sores.

Not exact matches

Previously, Tschinkel hypothesized that the bare patches were made by termite nests or toxic vapors from the ground, according to Stephanie Pappas of LiveScience.

Not thinking much of it, we — and by «we» I really mean «my husband Brian» — scraped it off and fertilized the grass that remained and then we replanted in the bare patches.

At a Friday Jum» ah prayer service earlier this month, more than a 150 worshippers trickled in, deposited shoes up front, and found a patch of floor in a chamber with bare white walls and exposed pipes on the ceiling.

Equidistant from the North Star and a patch of bare sky at the South Pole, this line is marked by Orion's Belt (above).

«But, perhaps more importantly, these results support a rarely tested idea that social signaling itself, such as the need to detect blushing and facial color changes, might have had a role in the evolution or maintenance of the unusual type of color vision shown in primates, especially those with conspicuous patches of bare skin, including humans, macaques, and many others,» concludes co-author Amanda Melin of the University of Calgary.

Locals call these patches of bare ground surrounded by rings of tall grass «god's footprints» or the mark of a fire - breathing, underground dragon.

WHODUNIT Called fairy circles, the mysterious patches of bare soil in the Namib Desert may form thanks to a mix of fighting termites and competing plants, scientists propose.

With the passage of time, patches of retinal pigment epithelial cells may die, resulting in bare spots known as geographic atrophy.

Today, patches of bare ice blot its surface, revealing great twisting crevasses in its face.

On the advice of my vet, since fish oil gives my dog the runs, I now give my Golden Retriever freshly ground flaxseeds and in just a week his coat became shiny, less itchy, and the bare patches filled in (normally this time of year he pulls his hair out like a mad man.

Takedown is a bare - bones wreck in need of substantial patching.

Well - managed playing fields will not only improve the quality of school pitches, but will also improve their usability as pupils enjoy playing on pitches without bumps and bare patches, says Colin Hoskins and Dan Prest from the Institute of Groundsmanship.

We detected the barest hint of cowl shake over the roughest patches of road we could find, the body mostly remaining as composed as the coupe's, constructed from the identical aluminum tub and reinforced with aluminum, magnesium and ultralight but rigid carbon - fiber body panels.

Shedding is normal, large patches of bare skin or extremely thin coat may be signs of underlying health problems.

If your dog's hair coat looks healthy, and you can't see patches of bare skin through the hair, it's not likely to be a medical problem.

A patch of blue sky peers down onto the blue - green slopes of the bare mountainside before it disappears behind the grey, cotton clouds.

On the one hand, the bare bones of the game are there, the potential is there, and I wouldn't trust many devs outside of Kerberos to patch this to a decent state.

In the case of Seeded (1960), the first work on the right as visitors enter the gallery, these colors are amalgamated in an energetic mass of swirls, curves, bold lines, and planes of color that are further enlivened by patches of canvas left bare.

Paradoxically, the lightest patch of sky in a watercolor often comes from bare paper.

The bare walls, patched with tape and water stains, have the somber colors and dapper asymmetry of African American art after Synthetic Cubism, like Romare Bearden.

She would fill the vessels with blooms — thick circles in hearty shades of blue, orange or red balanced by whites and pinks and sometimes by patches of bare canvas.

On unstretched linen, he layers oil and acrylic paint in thick and uniform quantity, but then strips and sands the surface of the painting to lay bare, in erratic patches, the linen's surface and fibers.

And that it is possible to lay scarlet next to orange, next to cadmium red, next to pink, next to black and bring the whole thing to life with a few patches of bare canvas and white.

Casual swipes of thickly applied paint, bright splotches, and spreading patches of color that occasionally allow a glimpse of bare canvas: Nina Kluth develops her paintings with a tempestuousness and roughness that is, in the end, carefully calibrated.

He just had a bare patch on his side that was sort of...... um... burnt orange colored.

Check that the papier - mache letter is clean and free of dust and grease, then use a Pritt stick to glue the torn paper in place, overlapping patches all over the letter, leaving some parts uncovered so that the bare papier - mache shows through.

Looking out the window at the bare branches of the trees and the spotty patches of snow on the bare ground, it has set me to dreaming of the beaches in Hawaii and warmer weather.