Example sentences for: patchwork

How can you use “patchwork” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 2) The book "is patchwork, a grab bag of speeches he gave, the great and the near-great he met, causes he could not refuse to get involved in, conferences he helped to organize, ideological battles he fought" instead of a linear narrative (Lehmann-Haupt).

  • The McCains go in to chat up the employees and buy a blue-and-white patchwork quilt.

  • With no written culture to document it, the pre-European history of the Inuit and other early peoples is a vague archaeological patchwork of bones, stones, and artifacts.

  • The USAT lead explains the need to replace the current patchwork paper-and-pencil-and-phone disease-reporting system: Thirty-five new infectious diseases have been identified since 1973, while some older ones have been reincarnated as drug-resistant superbugs.

  • As Nicholas Lemann observed in the November Atlantic Monthly , American public schools are "rhetorically committed to decentralization" but in fact are "centralized in a patchwork, undeliberate way.


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