The beach, however, is quite sandy, with a few rocky patches.

That oil field had been only a rocky patch in the mountains of Colorado, given up as exhausted long ago.

What Papaw wouldn't have given for land like this, rather than the rocky patch around the holler.

But despite the occasional rocky patch, 71% expected to be with their husbands for the rest of their lives.

After the Russell estate property, the sale went through some rocky patches.

A body adjusting to lower hormone levels is bound to hit a few rocky patches but it will adjust in time.

Why then should it have run just at that moment into a rocky patch?

A rocky patch in the hills, far from human habitation.

Chloe hit a rocky patch that threw the car into the air.

The conversation hits a rocky patch when it turns to the subject of antiwar protests.