How To Use Patch In A Sentence
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Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
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This process must proceed with dispatch, without posturing, without grandstanding, without empty words.
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From his driveway, Benelli dispatches patrol cars and sends officers to new assignments.
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I use the brush first rapped with a cleaning patch soaked in carburetor cleaner.
Live from the SHOT Show: New Gun Reviews
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There was Patch after was drowned out of a curagh that turned over.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
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A reporter was dispatched to Naples to cover the riot.
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There was a patch of raw skin on my back where the sun had burnt it.
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These calories are used to: replenish your glycogen (the way you store fuel in your muscles and liver) and oxygen stores. resynthesize phosphagen (ATP-PC). remove lactate. repair the wear and tear on your muscles caused by exercise (and these patch kits are made up of protein, which is costly in terms of calories). return your increased ventilation, blood circulation and body temperature to pre-exercise levels. hormones exercise induces (which also require protein).
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As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder.
Why Life is Now More Complicated
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Perret considers this dispatch an anomaly: "It stands alone, unsupported, unrepeated."
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A collection of tattered men o'war and patched sloops is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.
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He explained to the Western People that an old dinghy, which has been patched up by his son on the morning of the accident, proved to be the rescue vehicle for the drowning family.
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Half an hour later, Willie's nose zigzagged up a rise onto level patch of sun where, a hundred years ago, a house had stood.
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They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik.
Knowledge is Power
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When I saw it was a beer company, I called my dispatcher and said, ‘I can’t do this.
Muslim trucker sues over alcohol load
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Growing in part shade, the clusters of pure white bell-shaped flowers look their best as the sun moves from them and they are left to give a patch of light in front of a dark-leaved heuchera.
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The powder charge and the ball and patch had to be rammed separately down the tight-fitting barrel and the pan primed with powder.
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One of them, a baby-faced guy maybe in his mid-thirties, with a black patch over his left eye, smiles and raises his beer at me in salutation.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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Although efforts to divert single-use batteries from the waste stream are growing, only a patchwork of regulations currently exists, depending on where you live.
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Four teens ran down the dirt path of a town, their clothes tattered and patched, but not dirty.
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Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead, components are patched together just to keep the system running.
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Gabriel was despatched to him with that short chapter of the Koran, which we call the ninety-fourth, beginning with the words
Travels in Arabia
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With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
A SON OF THE SUN
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At first glance, it's a cleaning rod with a rubber tip and a funny-looking patch.
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He wears a black patch over the recently fitted plastic eye, but his dancing legs are strong.
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Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
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Rake over and re-seed bare patches on the lawn and sow new lawns by the end of September.
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An increasing amount of forests along ridgetops in the front ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains is reducing the ability of some alpine butterflies to disperse among patches of suitable habitat.
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So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in dispatching his breakfast, as, the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely.
Chapter XXV
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There was also a report that Japan was dispatching its troops to Korea on the pretext of protecting its legation.
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Last year he dispatched troops into Swat and South Waziristan to oust the Taliban from their mountain lair; more recently, he helped the US increase drone strikes.
Mumbai spy says he worked for terrorists ? then briefed Pakistan
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G 6 A FTP patch cord reaches the best exterior crosstalk performance via its unique double - sleeve design.
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Then, using an electronic compass and ultrasonic sensors, it cuts the area about 10 times, ensuring a minimum of missed patches.
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Eventually it would have been picked up at about 3.00 am when a despatcher was doing some housekeeping on the system.
Parklife « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum.
Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
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For a sensuous bath, try sandalwood, rose, ylang-ylang, patchouli, neroli or jasmine.
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She adds, "Crews are having to repatch the same area over and over again.
WVEC Top Stories
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Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest.
Times, Sunday Times
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The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Her lashing tail was half-spotted, half-striped; her clothes overly big and just a little worn and patchy, like hand-me-downs.
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Within hours a terse reply had been dispatched across Ireland's second city.
Times, Sunday Times
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Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
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He dispatches enemies with a sword, a battleaxe, or a spear-like native weapon called a taiaha.
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Women wear the patch on their abdomen, where it gradually releases a dose of testosterone into the body through the skin.
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He received the wool in huge bales and then graded it according to length and fineness, before despatching it to the cloth-maker or dealer.
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By doing so, he patches up an unorthodox story with a heart-warming resolution.
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So ended the memorable 14th of August: it will be, doubtless, remembered by many with far from pleasant feelings; and some who have been "gulled" in England may thank Mr. Petersen that a carrier-pigeon freighted with a cock-and-bull story of blood, fire, wreck, and murder, was not despatched on that memorable day.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51
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The print spooler security bulletin is one of nine issued in Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday, and one of four rated as critical.
Microsoft patches Windows XP flaw that aided Stuxnet worm
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So great was the general's despatch, that Paul I, at his request, granted the young man a sub-lieutenancy in the Semonowskoi regiment, so that Foedor entered on his duties the very next day after his arrival in St. Petersburg.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
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He experimented with carnivorous plants and orchids in the greenhouses, and studied natural selection on a special patch of weeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a feature in Windows that downloads the software patches automatically onto computers.
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We'll have to patch up the hole in the roof.
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Her mother also has a variety of moles and brown skin patches.
Times, Sunday Times
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The patch - painted to depict a North American Indian mythical half-eagle, half-hawk thunderbird - is hallowed ground.
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The belief that smoking is a physical addiction is what the popular nicotine " patches " trade on.
Self-Hypnosis
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But the engagement among smaller businesses is patchier.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds.
Mercy Kill
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It might be compared with the modern Arnhem Land maps of the same area that I tried to find later, but which were merely a patchwork of uranium leases.
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Aboard the covered harvest wagons, out of the misty air, we wind our way past fields of broccoli, kale and parsley, and stop in the tomato patch.
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I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are.
Archive 2008-04-01
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You may have been offered red Japanese wineberries (Rubus phoenicolasius) from someone's garden; they're sweet but not a patch on blackberries for flavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The following medicines may need changes when taken with Kaletra: birth control pills that contain estrogen ( "the pill"), birth control (contraceptive) patches, atorvastatin (Lipitor®), rosuvastatin (Crestor®), efavirenz (Atripla® and Sustiva®), nevirapine (Viramune®), amprenavir
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In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies.
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The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up.
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Zoey pointed upward to their right to a large, light-colored bird whose wide wingspread showed off dark patches on the wings and tale.
Devlin’s Light
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Wonder if he knows about that bald patch?
The Sun
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The plan of the sanctuary complex, now a dignified patchwork of ruins, is quintessentially Syrian, with a small central temple surrounded by an expansive precinct known as the temenos .
Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert'
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Further inshore, the blocky outlines of the cliffs of Dover had been erased by patches of fog.
CORMORANT
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During the 1990s, Liverpool's biggest contribution to mainstream rock culture involved dispatching platoons of terrifying feral scallies to mug people at Glastonbury.
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They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch.
The Faculty Club
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All of her jeans were torn and ripped at the knees and hem, and were patched in many places as well.
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Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
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Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands.
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Jim sat down under a flowering tree in a patch of tiny white blossoms and faced the shimmering waters of the river.
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Anticipating actual legal reform, the development of cannabis beverages, lozenges, skin patches or other forms of delivery could be encouraged to diminish pulmonary hazards.
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Do you sometimes go to Cristiano Ronaldo's house to pick some vegetables to make a soup from his vegetable patch? Explain that a little bit.
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He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days 'growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance.
The Cow Puncher
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His patch covers the whole of the North of England from Birmingham upwards, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Septach Melayn handed the despatch to Prestimion, who took it without looking at it and tossed it to a nearby table.
LORD PRESTIMION
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There remain the frons the post-ocular patch, the pronotum, the hind femora and the abdominal tergites.
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When patching, use a high-strength non-shrink concrete grout mix with an epoxy binder.
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But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
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The trail begins near the entrance to the town, extending through patches of dogberries and fireweed, along a beach filled with driftwood and shells and into a wooded area.
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Ten patches each were allocated to one of four quality classes defined by the number of food items which a solitary forager could obtain during one time step.
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We found a patch of open ground in the middle of the woods.
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My score was 259 of these little patches: the doctor winced slightly.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have got wet patches on the wall.
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Now he'll try to stop using nicotine patches and an inhaler.
Times, Sunday Times
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Patches can range from a few millimetres to a few centimetres in size.
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Towns arose with no other purpose than to collect and dispatch merchandise.
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Remnant patches were very similar in structure, tree composition, and mean diameter.
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The West Country is the part of Britain most visited by walkers and nature lovers, but until now they have had to make do with a patchy network of footpaths and coastal walks.
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It is easy to think of a very young seedling (the commonest experimental object in plant science) as being an individual, but which is the individual bracken plant in a huge clonal patch of bracken?
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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That's why the Mooselings first feared that perhaps they had already blogged down the wrong alley, when, just yesterday, they received an unexpected direct call patched in from the Bull Moose himself all the way from the Lone Star state.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Patching cements look darker than the color of the cement because the polymer bonding agents in them make the concrete denser.
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The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
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Colonel Tilghman, one of my aids-de-camp, will have the (p. 088) honour to deliver these despatches to Your Excellency; he will be able to inform you of every minute circumstance which is particularly mentioned in my letter.
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
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She was ordered off court to patch up the injured child and found a first aid box containing iodine.
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In this kind of environment, post-feminism confronts the young feminist as something of a briar patch to be negotiated with care.
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Laid out on the bed was a long sleeved, shapeless, faded black dress with patches at the bottom.
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In guttate psoriasis, the second most common form of the disease, the patches are small and shaped like drops of water.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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It has been long enough that my memory of the specifics is patchy, but I did like the fact that his journeys felt almost like a variety of short stories strung together with an overall narrative structure, which is something I enjoy.
REVIEW: The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
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Dispatches opened with footage of a young man curled up by his front door, whimpering in pain and despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the most common methods of doing kernel work is to use the patch and diff programs.
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The party had considered the possibility of disaster for one man, and that had been the principal reason for despatching the two in different directions.
Chapter VIII
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When gum infection causes periodontosis , drinkable mix juice with carrot cabbage patch, can supply many vitamin C for human body not only, return OK and clean oral cavity at the same time.
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After a while, we crossed a dry gulch, Horse Creek, and turned off into a patch of Grasslands the Forest Service proposes to keep roadless.
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This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_.
How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
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Unlike laboratory stimuli such as sinusoidal grating or the Gabor patch, natural images generally contain signals broadly distributed over different spatial frequencies.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away.
Touch of Evil
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That's because I believe the GST is a long overdue, necessary part of fundamental reform of our patch-work-quilt system.
Challenges We Have Met and Challenges Ahead
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Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
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The people around the village began to take notice, hushing children and pushing them back into their small houses that were made out of patched mud and straw.
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Brunt, following in, despatched a meaty drive into the far corner from near the edge of the area.
Times, Sunday Times
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As part of our college tradition, a staff member visits a family when they are going through a rough patch.
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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He patched things up with a teddy bear.
The Sun
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My father hit a bad patch, he had to sell the house.
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'Yi, lass; we're awlus for patchin' th'Almeety's work; and if He leet us, we's mak 'a sorry mess on it and o'. '
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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He secured from the douma an order by which three thousand families were moved to that port, and streltsi were dispatched to garrison it.
The Story of Russia
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So sure was I of Chris coming through with the loan approval that I'd begun patching up my apartment so I could get my damage deposit back when I moved out.
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Mrs Browner's love of perennials and petunias began when her gran gave her a patch of garden to look after as a child.
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In her latest dispatch, Clare Duggan, our war correspondent, reported an increase in fighting.
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Swindon Counselling Service, a registered charity, has 16 years of experience in helping people to get through rough patches in their relationships and also come to terms with unacknowledged emotions.
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Research also suggests that doctors are failing to offer women a choice of other contraceptives despite a multimillion-pound drive to promote patches and long-term injections.
Times, Sunday Times
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Google uses this method in a program they wrote called courgette to reduce the size of the patches it sends out for Chrome, but Red Bend the mobile phone software company has a patent on this method and has filed suit against Google.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents
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I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.
Gardening.
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The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
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Amtrak has sold its mail cars and is getting improved dispatching from the Union Pacific Railroad.
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The gallery forests are dominated by Cynometra vogelii; the patches of dense dry forest by Isoberlinia doka, Anogeissus leiocarpus, Cola cordifolia, Antiaris africana, which is nationally threatened, Chlorophora excelsa (VU), and the edible akee Blighia unijugata.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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This he did, dispatching a small force to scout after the "army" disappearing over the hills.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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Particularly clever is the use of the extracted reverberation from the harp, used as an eerie synthesizer patch in its own right.
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The people then, quite reasonably, expect the state to be able to handle this task - this task which it has created the necessity of - with dispatch.
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Both males and females have green-black specula, with pale blue patches on the forewing.
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Oral health problems strongly associated with smokeless tobacco use are leukoplakia (a lesion of the soft tissue that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off) and recession of the gums ..
Are adults snoozing while kids are "snusing?"
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Had he not always been swathed in white robes, you could have imagined him in a cardie, pottering round his vegetable patch with his little grandson.
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They were to meet in a restaurant and pose as two friends trying to patch up some hard times.
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I grabbed my first aid kit, wiped the wound clean and patched him up with a bandage before the ambulance arrived.
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In addition, Lee designers express the theme with ‘unfinished design’ which includes handicraft style, oblique neckline and patchwork.
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Indian days over; "nester" days with frame houses and vegetable patches not yet here.
The Killer
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This complex patchwork protection throws up challenges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Junk bonds roared back into favour in the USA during the 1990s but the market has since hit a sticky patch.
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In front of our building was a patch of raked gravel with flowerbeds full of geraniums and palm plants.
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True, there will be patches of perkiness in the emerging world.
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We've fenced off the vegetable patch to stop the rabbits from getting in.
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Conserving their habitat could involve preserving a patch of scrub or delaying the cutting of a swathe of hay for a few days until a bird has fledged its young.
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Tape the joints with drywall tape and finish the patch with joint compound.
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If a stud does rip out, simply patch it with a tire plug and then install a new stud a little further away on the knobby.
Top 10 Tire Tips!
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He carried his bat for 102 from 153 deliveries and provided the backbone of an innings which featured a nervy patch during which three of the upper order were dismissed for ducks.
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It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches.
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After the invocational four-poem opening of 'Let's Just Say,' the book moves to 'Some of These Daze,' Bernstein's prose dispatches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and on to the acerbic intimacies of 'World on Fire,' which critiques clichés like 'what are we fighting for?'
The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Bernstein, Girly Man
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The rock is dominated by well-oriented hornblende surrounding porphyroclasts of diopside, which is patchily transitional into hornblende.
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Her whole time was spent in making patchwork quilts with knitting-needles that were an arshin [An ell.] long.
Poor Folk
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I hoped to discover which were best suited to my Gloucestershire patch, and to come up with new and unusual planting combinations.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe that war is in Latin called bellum, not by antiphrasis, as some patchers of old rusty Latin would have us to think, because in war there is little beauty to be seen, but absolutely and simply; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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We always get through these rough patches, but let's face it, no one ever likes sitting in a patch of grass burrs at the time no matter how funny the story may be later.
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There were large patches of rust on the car.
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That leaves three attackers to be tried, as reported in the Times-Dispatch, unless one or more of the attackers is facing more than one trial.
6 CHS-UVa Attackers Plead Guilty at cvillenews.com
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We find a patch of dry ground, cook our last freeze-dried dinner, and build a campfire.
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But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life.
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He told me to be more aggressive in representing my patch.
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The narrative also jumps between miscellaneous angles and points of view, creating a portrait that is necessarily disjointed and patchy.
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She was barefoot and her patched yellow sunsuit was faded and worn.
The Red Trailer Mystery
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On the other side, three stores, then the courthouse -- a cupolaed white frame building set back from the road with a patchy lawn in front -- then four more storefronts, two of them brick.
Cold Mountain
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A chasseur had been dispatched with the counterorder, who passed the exulting, but deluded G---- on the road.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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She's also struggling to make upgrades that the city has requested, like computerizing the dispatch system and installing credit-card machines.
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The following year (April 1967), I was within 400 metres of the previous sighting, and close to a patch of "ploughed" ground which I had seen on my way up the valley about six days before.
Archive 2007-01-01
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The distinctive markings of pronghorns, especially the bright white rump patch, make them easy to spot.
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Schools and community centres have joined together to produce a huge piece of textile art, inspired by the traditional Bengali patchwork cloth, the kantha.
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A nonpermeable patch containing 2 ml/kg body weight of Margosan-O@ was placed over small shaved areas on a group of albino rabbits.
Chapter 15
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While original gangstas like NWA presented graphic dispatches from LA gang turf where few reporters were brave enough to tread, he has been sold as a GI Joe doll with real bullet holes.
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B. All keyboard sounds must be edited in some way: no factory presets or pre-programmed patches are allowed.
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Accessorise the look with long tasselled shoulder bags in patch-work leather and butter soft suede boots.
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The grass is still growing so you can still make patch repairs to lawns.
Times, Sunday Times
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But at the moment when no precaution should have been relaxed, a despatch from the West India directors, who appear to have been misled by advices from London, announced that no danger need be apprehended from the English expedition, as it was sent out by the King only to settle the affairs of his colonies and establish episcopacy, which would rather benefit the company's interests in New Netherlands.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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She has gone on holiday with her husband to try to patch up their marriage.
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Made of 100% cotton, 5-oz. twill, these button-downs have fine details like double-needle stitching for added durability, patch pockets and button-down collars.
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He dispatched the younger player in straight sets.
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There is a collective sigh of relief around the table as the herbal tea is dispatched.
Times, Sunday Times
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a patch on these trousers?
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Especially, the time effect is remarkable for it to patch corners of stone material, to adhibit at location to speed up curing.
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Part of her was carved from a patch of ocher ground, and part from the hole dug there.
EVERVILLE
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My boyfriend and I were going through a rough patch .
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The skin underneath the bald patch looks completely normal.
The Sun
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Police quickly dispatch a cab and send them home.
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Bell sounds are messy and not for controlling, they also cause a litany of electronic effects such as phasing and digital delay without ever having gone through a patchbay.
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There are damp patches on the ceilings.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, drawing is prominent in the paintings, whether jerkily outlining colored patches or visible as the pentimenti of earlier, barely erased marks.
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Six minutes and a fraction over 20 seconds later, and the British four were contemplating a row of latent promise but patchy quality.
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“I need to check on that carbureter I patched back together.”
Plain Language
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There are little patches of yellow on the limes, and a scattering of leaves on the ground beneath.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, the stuff is never cheap and quality is patchy.
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Dell Computer will issue a patch to fix performance issues on some of its Axim PDAs on Wednesday, according to company officials.
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Part of her was carved from a patch of ocher ground, and part from the hole dug there.
EVERVILLE
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It was a perilous undertaking to climb a walnut tree, for the limbs began to grow high up and the trunk was covered with a rough bark, hence the name shagbark; to shin up, and still more to descend, was apt to make patches or a new seat to your trousers your mother's evening work after you had gone to bed.
Confessions of Boyhood
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With fewer tourists in town, the taxi trade is going through its leanest patch for 30 years.
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The telephonist contacted the Police Information Room and a police car was despatched to the father's address.