patchwork

Example Sentences

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Instead, liquid water likely interacted with different parts of the asteroid under varying conditions, creating a patchwork of chemical environments.

From Science Daily

The rest of him was a patchwork—black snout and face, orange ears and torso, pepper-gray haunches, black paws.

From Literature

Elsewhere, a patchwork of laws limits the practice to EV startups or to specific manufacturers.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film portrays a rural Hungary made up of a patchwork of poor villages, home especially to the country's large Roma minority.

From BBC

Husband said fans often looked like a "patchwork quilt" with different colours of shirts in the stands but were brought together by the national dress.

From BBC