patching

[ UK /pˈæt‍ʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpætʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it
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How To Use patching In A Sentence

  • 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
  • There was also a report that Japan was dispatching its troops to Korea on the pretext of protecting its legation.
  • Babu snagged the spot last year by dispatching a friend to stake it out two months before the season even started.
  • 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.
  • Following its use as a storage site for tanks during the war, the road has been kept usable by constant patching up.
  • During the 1990s, Liverpool's biggest contribution to mainstream rock culture involved dispatching platoons of terrifying feral scallies to mug people at Glastonbury.
  • When patching, use a high-strength non-shrink concrete grout mix with an epoxy binder.
  • Patching cements look darker than the color of the cement because the polymer bonding agents in them make the concrete denser.
  • 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
  • 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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