Should they have planted themselves amid the seven million residents of New York City instead?

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars.

Becca looked down at her feet, planted amid rubble.

Trees are being planted amid the rubble.

As a roving ambassador for the blighted inner cities, he has planted hope amid the ruins.

The rescuers had to be alert for fake secondary bombs that had been planted amid the collapsed concrete and broken glass.

Or that the Stoppardian epigrams (planted amid some frankly tedious speech making) sparkle.

He sat upright in the wooden office chair, his heavy elbows planted on his desk amid the clutter of unrecorded speeding tickets and unfinished reports.

Small-leaved kinds planted into land-drains set amid borders allow trails to cascade well without them clinging to brickwork.

With boughs limp and trunks planted amid black bags of debris, they signal that January is here; deal with it.