Example sentences for: patchwork

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

  • 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.

  • The Times quoted the landlord of a pub opposite her apartment as saying, "I see her going out most days in quite wild clothes, like patchwork trousers.

  • Tobacco (of slightly lesser quality than in the Vuelta Abajo) grows here in a patchwork of fields and dries in bohíos, constructed with shaggy thatch.

  • 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).

  • It contains some of Cuba’s most beautiful countryside among the lush Guaniguanico mountains and surrounding patchwork of lushly verdant fields (vegas), where the world’s finest tobacco is cultivated.


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