These could be used to make phone calls over a patch without all other users in the same group having to listen to the call.

Before long nations may go to war over patches of ocean bottom.

He stilled as his fingers ran over a patch of blood.

They were over a patch of blue water, evidently flying southwest.

He stood over a dark patch of congealed blood under an arch where a 12-year-old boy had died.

You're speeding over a patch of black ice or wet leaves when suddenly you try to stop - and nothing happens.

The worm's skin seemed to be blazing just ahead over a patch bigger than I was.

I dragged myself over a big patch of it.

Ernie June would never, ever bend over a patch behind her cottage.

The benefits include greater control over dosage and patches that can be worn longer, he said.