patched

Example Sentences

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They are patched through to them from payphones in Evin prison via the Foreign Office, which has described their incarceration as "appalling" and "unjustifiable".

From BBC • May 1, 2026

He has been inundated with customers wanting to have old bikes patched up.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Until then, all kinds of designs were patched together from silk, linen, wool or “anything at hand.”

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

“Gone Before Goodbye” is not some magpie creature patched together from shopworn thriller tropes, even if certain plot elements feel a bit much.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

Around the rustic table placed in the center of a patched circus tent where the delegates sat were the last officers who were faithful to Colonel Aureliano Buendía.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez