But in the late 1980's, when the Government stopped rigorously enforcing apartheid, thousands began slipping into the white cities, squatting on any vacant patch.

He halted after prancing into a vacant patch of grass and realizing that he was alone.

The sloping banks of the lake have shrubs interspersed with grasses and vacant patches, and woody species, generally of Acacia sp.

Pulling on his driving gloves, he strolled away from the inn's main door to await his curricle in a vacant patch of sunshine by the wall.

He recalled a one-eyed friend and the difficulty of focusing the attention on that lonely eye without being drawn to the vacant patch.

Lumbini was then a vacant patch surrounded by jungle.

Then when it was obvious I wasn't going to say anything she shrugged, smiled and drifted away down the slope to another vacant patch of rock.

Yet there were vacant patches on the crest.

Weeds are opportunists, quick to stake a claim for any vacant patch of ground they find.

They arrived beside the house in time to discover the dwarf nearly a hundred feet away, making for a cluster of trees in a vacant patch of land.