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patchy example sentences
patchy
1. This area was desolate: patchy grass, amid the sandstone rocks, partly chewed by the local fauna
2. In fact, his academic record was at best patchy; school never held much interest, there were even suggestions that he undergo ‘imprinted learning’ (a latterly illegal process of grafting knowledge onto neuron networks) such was his failure at the core subjects – even mathematics, which at the time seemed irrelevant
3. Her memory for most of the past year was now patchy
4. Her hair was patchy; he couldn't remember how long they had been exposed before stasis arrested the ravages of radiation
5. The sand turned to patchy shale outcrops and by midday every step sounded like walking over broken glass, as the soft sandstone cracked and crumbled beneath their weight
6. The fur on his back, patchy and thin, with the scabby skin beneath showing through
7. It was patchy, and it came and went in clumps
8. His face was hardly distinguishable from the crosshatch of scars, which he tried to conceal with a dark patchy beard; he was not by any account a handsome man, having a face only a mother could love
9. Mainstream Science proposes that the brain integrates the patchy and fragmentary bits of information on the retina available in successive fixations into a stable, detailed model or representation
10. patchy, weaving their way in and around the rocky ground
11. Communications have been a bit patchy
12. Patchy beard spots his dirty reflection in dirty windows
13. “You’re a big help except I’m not quite in step with you yet: everything is still a bit patchy
14. He was almost grown, his chin patchy
15. The rest of the area was patchy grass covered dirt and a group of spectators who came out for the show
16. Patchy grass and a smattering of dandelions and buttercups grew between the rough markers
17. He had patchy hair stuck to his scalp and a fat gut that strained
18. This "New Project Evaluation" package had had a patchy history
19. "His annual performance reviews are a patchy pattern
20. • One fast, smooth, pull back is much more effective than a series of light pulls which only increase the pain and leave patchy areas
21. A girl about my age, Greek of course, for everyone in that hall was Greek even if one would have never deduced it from the patchy smattering of Greek and the few scratchy Greek records, noticed the
22. the large building was old and distorted from the roots crawling beneath its patchy walls
23. Late in the after-turns of the following day, a patchy light brown hue now stained the
24. Comparing the descriptions to patchy recollections, some appeared true, but others
25. Patchy grey, the
26. Each year countless water fanatics are plagued with a patchy red pinpoint skin rash associated with itching on the parts of the body that have been in the water
27. A patchy spot of blood had already seeped through the white material
28. windows brightened and faded as patchy clouds blew across the sky
29. Salander had written a program which not only gave her ownership over the system, but also the power to control remotely pretty much anything on an intranet of which she had only patchy knowledge
30. Scarlett stood morning dappling her, and tried to keep her eyes away from the red trench in front of behind him in the patchy shade of a gnarled low-limbed cedar, the hot sun of the June her
31. Sure, he’d seen strawberry-blond Hasidim on the train with their forelocks and patchy beards, and Rabbi Lidner had pointed to stories of adoption in the Torah; Moses was adopted, he said
32. SHE WAS OLDER by three years, but around the time when William’s patchy memories had fused into the single, continuous individual now before him—which is to say, in the afterburn of their mother’s death—he’d decided that Regan was in need of his protection
33. WE WERE BRINGING up the rear of the Randy Fish motorcade, the cherubic serial killer and his armed guards bumping along ahead of us on the patchy road
34. Unlikely things are patchy, like things that happened a long time ago, because there are hours or years of more likely ones stacked up before them
