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patchwork example sentences
patchwork
1. The new regulations are a chaotic patchwork of the labeling laws that states are currently using or want implemented
2. thirty-five patchwork years on royal icing,
3. On my left the ground drops away steeply and the view runs for miles towards the misty horizon – rolling green hills with patchwork fields and tiny villages dotted with copses of trees
4. At first the landscape was that of a patchwork quilt, neat almost square sections flanked the road, slowly giving way to a rocky terrain, dotted with small pines, and then they were engulfed in a dense forest
5. As they passed through into the garden they spied the red brick house surrounded on all sides by a vast array of plants shrubs and huge old trees with a patchwork of lawns and terraces
6. the scene below the hillside, where he and his ten thousand Red Blood Guard were mounted, was miles of patchwork farmland fields, brown, green, and yellow squares, with tens of thousands of demons covering those fields
7. It raises questions about gaps in the hodge-podge patchwork quilt of systems at landfills nationwide that monitor and detect such types of waste from hospitals, laboratories, and industrial plants
8. It was just a smooth clearing in the jungle, albeit one with a recognizable concrete patchwork visible through hedges of tall weeds and with buildings in use still along the southern perimeter line
9. I see a blue patchwork quilt under my head and wince as I tilt my head to see where the water sound is coming from
10. “His theories were a delightful patchwork of history and folk tales and imagination, but they gripped me somehow
11. In her hands she held a beautiful patchwork cloak
12. Of course, one fond memory would often lead to an onslaught of others, some pleasant and some that were better forgotten but that nonetheless were a part of the patchwork of life
13. It was a patchwork of thousands of small fields enclosed by almost impenetrable hedges, consisting of dense thickets of hawthorn and brambles, up to five metres in height, with a drainage ditch on either side
14. society that is constructed like a patchwork quilt of literally hundreds of
15. Ray's eyes land back on Hooperman's store, looking for activity between posed loaves of bread and a patchwork of painted sale-signs in the window
16. The piles of bread displayed in the window and patchwork of sales signs didn't help either
17. A winding band of green trees embraced on both sides by a patchwork of geometric green fields marks the path of the San Pedro River
18. patchwork of the surrounding farms and fences as they
19. How does this patchwork of
20. “Homeless, what is the greatest amendment?” the blood veined the orb stitching up the scales into a patchwork vision
21. What she thought had been a heap of disrespectful tourist trash suddenly rustled and a voice emerged from somewhere within the patchwork waste of an unidentified creature's habitat
22. They were the same patchwork of greens as the dresses, only without the glitter
23. The building had to be a hundred or more years old and the patchwork of cement and brick showed how many times it had to be repaired over the years
24. David was bewildered: who could that be? It dawned on him as if in a dream, and then it struck him hard: the girl in the black bodice, short black skirt twirling about her shapely legs in the black tights, shining black shoes and with a little black hand-bag, was Irena! No patchwork dress going all the way down to her ankles, no long hair falling about her shoulders and none of the melancholic dreaminess and shyness that had struck him in her when he had first seen her
25. On through barren fields of redeveloping and reconstructing industry, passed green wastelands, a rural patchwork of varying colours
26. e dark man lifted his head to reveal a face that was a patchwork of
27. ‘This is the perfect time to enjoy the art,’ said Julia, her arm stretched towards the first piece, a golden, shimmering Klimt, the stare of a beautiful woman in a patchwork dress, one delicious breast exposed, she merging with the background so that only her eyes truly mattered
28. Ancient primeval forests pocketed the dips and hollows of the mountains and valleys, while vast stretches of open grassland stretched out like a patchwork quilt over the rolling terrain of the valley bottoms
29. I’ve seen the way you and Larc look at each other! You share a love that is more than just skin deep! It encompasses all of you and trust me superficial scars aren’t going to phase Larc one little bit in his love for you! My back is a patchwork quilt of scars
30. The camera was panning quickly over a smiling scene of rolling hills, patchwork fields and woods, before zooming in on a bridge over a strange, two-way river
31. The late afternoon sky was a patchwork of copper-gold clouds and the horizon was a black
32. And so if there's an encircled star on this patchwork map indicating hope's modest capital, then it should be properly placed on this island
33. Then patchwork or towels appeared, and Amy sewed with outward meekness and inward rebellion till dusk, when she was allowed to amuse herself as she liked till teatime
34. To Hannah I give the bandbox she wanted and all the patchwork I leave hoping shèwill remember me, when it you see'
35. Tiny woods and fields blurred into a rushing patchwork
36. Against the other wall stood a big bed, very clean and covered with a silk patchwork wadded quilt
37. Under the thatched roofs her mind's eye beheld relaxed tendons and flaccid muscles, spread out in the darkness beneath coverlets made of little purple patchwork squares, and undergoing a bracing process at the hands of sleep for renewed labour on the morrow, as soon as a hint of pink nebulosity appeared on Hambledon Hill
38. But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her
39. Nine times he and the Fiddler charged with leveled lances, the green patchwork knight and the young lordling of the golden swords and fiddles, and nine times their lances shattered
40. Not until I’d dodged past Marco’s whipping limbs, reached down, and grabbed Carey by the collar of his patchwork leather jacket
41. Mitenka’s wife and sisters-in-law thrust their heads and frightened faces out of the door of a room where a bright samovar was boiling and where the steward’s high bedstead stood with its patchwork quilt
42. A large cumbersome, patchwork doll he had bought as a joke, for —
43. On the way down in the elevator he wondered, what if I told Alice about that toy — that patchwork doll — I stumbled over on the stairs last night? Lord, wouldn't that send her off into hysterics! No, I won't ever tell her about that
44. But he paid no attention to the patchwork doll
45. A large cumbersome, patchwork doll he had bought as a joke, for—
46. He lay there with the tears running down into his ears and he wept, feeling the bed, wept feeling the good sunlight on the fingers of his twitching hands and on the patchwork quilt
47. A large cumbersome, patchwork doll he had bought as a joke, for--
48. On the way down in the elevator he wondered, What if I told Alice about the top--that patchwork doll--I slipped on on the stairs last night? Lord, wouldn't that back her off? No, I won't ever tell her
49. Dora’s girls were making him a patchwork quilt, a beautiful thing of silk
50. He remembered all he had seen to-day; the woman with the children, and without her husband, who was in prison for having cut down trees in his (Nekhludoff’s) forest, and the terrible Matrona, who considered, or at least talked as if she considered, that women of her position must give themselves to the gentlefolk; he remembered her relation to the babies, the way in which they were taken to the Foundlings’ Hospital, and the unfortunate, smiling, wizened baby with the patchwork cap, dying of starvation
