patchy

How To Use patchy In A Sentence

• Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
• Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
• Other areas look drier, although patchy rain or sleet is likely in the far southwest. Times, Sunday Times
• Her lashing tail was half-spotted, half-striped; her clothes overly big and just a little worn and patchy, like hand-me-downs.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• The narrative also jumps between miscellaneous angles and points of view, creating a portrait that is necessarily disjointed and patchy.
• 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
• Six minutes and a fraction over 20 seconds later, and the British four were contemplating a row of latent promise but patchy quality.