patchwork

How To Use patchwork In A Sentence

• 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.
• The text forms a patchwork quilt of anecdotes that weave together domesticity and philosophy. The Times Literary Supplement
• 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.
• In the wake of the Napoleonic wars Italy was divided into a patchwork of kingdoms and duchies.
• The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags. Times, Sunday Times
• 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'
• They carried candles and wore masks: an eggshell face with antlers; a patchwork harlequin; a Casanova; a Scaramouch. The Faculty Club
• 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
• In addition, Lee designers express the theme with ‘unfinished design’ which includes handicraft style, oblique neckline and patchwork.
• This complex patchwork protection throws up challenges. Times, Sunday Times