patchwork
Example Sentences
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Swaths of the region are carpeted in grasses that each year grow and then die, creating what Acuña described as a patchwork of layers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
The morning after a general election, the result is pretty much complete by breakfast time - but that is not the case in this patchwork of elections around Britain.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
The writing has something in common with Annie Ernaux’s unsparing ethnological studies, except that Ms. Riley’s book consists of a patchwork of narratives whose thematic connections are only subtly suggested.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
A short walk along an irrigation canal leads to a weathered observation deck rising two stories above a patchwork of saturated flats where saltgrass, iodine bush and cattail take root.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Flopears wore a patchwork shirt made out of old Bull Durham sacks.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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