Ahead of them, a knee-high shrub grew at the edge of the patchy lawn, and Molly was headed straight for it.

We crossed the patchy lawn, and Lula tested the bottom porch step, pausing when it groaned under her weight.

The whole neighborhood seemed dispirited, from the patchy lawns to the cracked concrete driveways where every second house had a car up on blocks.

Its shadow trailed long enough to finish outside the frame on the weedy, patchy lawn inside the picket fence.

Not even the patchy lawn showed signs of professional care.

He had sunglasses on, taking in the residential neighborhood with its shady sidewalks and patchy lawns.

Just down the road from her parents' roomy but unassuming Colonial, with its green shutters and patchy lawn, the sawdust has settled on the construction of Venus Williams's gated home in South Florida.

In the bald, the 100,000 hair follicles with which everyone is born are not dead but merely stuck in rest phase or producing a patchy lawn of much thinner hairs.

Window before me; a view of small, twisted trees on a somewhat patchy lawn, all bathed in sunlight that was a bit orange for Earth.

Outside on the scruffy, patchy lawn of the museum, a pair of dogs were enthusiastically humping, tongues lolling out of their toothy mouths, while a dozen children stood around watching.