patch up

Example Sentences

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So here’s what I’m thinking: Before you skulk to her bedside for an insincere patch-up job, talk to your brother.

From Washington Post • Jun. 28, 2022

We'll be radioactive debris long before this proposed patch-up job would come along.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016

Prediction : 2-2 Somehow, this patch-up New York team keeps winning.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

Despite some Russian claims to the contrary, there was no hard evidence that Nixon's mining operation had started a reconciliation between the two Communist giants, whose antipathy cuts far too deep for any quick patch-up.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now all law, all social order, all custom, is a patch-up and a concession to this separating passion of self-insistence.

From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)