Michael, and shall be well patched and powdered as befits my rank!
Patched pates and plastered cheeks were plentiful about the streets; there were rumours, too, of tragedies, but these rumours proved baseless when the morning wore away.
An old man, at least a man who might be a rotten forty or a patched and mended sixty, with his painted face and his lipless line of a mouth--horror!
Isn’t there any way I can be patched up so as to get out to-morrow?
The physician folded up the patched letter carefully before he continued.
Even a low magnification frequently reveals a drawing, hesitating method of production, or patched and reinforced strokes as well as erasures by chemicals or by abrasion.
The ludicrous effect that was sometimes produced is well seen in Hogarth's engravings, which date from the time when infants were powdered and patched as well as dressed in a way that made them truly grotesque.
The sea was very blue, only patched with green wherever a cloud-shadow fell on it.
The harnessing, too, was patched and mended in a slovenly fashion; the horses lean and out of condition; the drivers awkward and inexperienced.
After a time the Allied Press came and patched up their château, or parts of it.
They patched up the little house by the station and did a roaring trade, and some few other families came back.
I got a heavy canvas lining, and the garageman patched and vulcanized and sold me a variety of appliances.
So I yanked those patches out and put on our last hope--a spare tire in fairly decent condition, and patiently patched those bursted tubes--all of which work was done in a hot place under the eyes of a kindly but maddening audience.
King Edward IV dies, having patched up a seeming truce between the factions.
I don't think you understand the condition of those buildings you want patched up.
The Northmen poured over the Humber and captured and sacked York, despite the fact that it was fortified--perhaps the walls of the Roman castra had been patched up.
The fleet was slowly patched into an appearance of efficiency, but it could not sail until the middle of May, 1588.
My own post-boy, he of the patched breeches, now stood before me, his eyes glittering with greed, his hand advanced.
The marks of neglect were visible on every side, in flower-bushes straggling beyond the borders, in the ill-kept turf, and in the broken windows that were incongruously patched with paper or stuffed with rags.
He wore a "motley" suit of discordant colours to make him ridiculous, and correspond with the incongruity of his mind and actions--a dress similar to the hundred patched paniculus centunculus of the Roman mimes.
Hodge, the man with the patched breeches encourages Gammer Gurton, who seems little to require it.
Don't make any mistake in the start, boys, for the trouble that lies between Alexander Gregory and myself can never be patched up, though if he had his way it would be.
Now, he strikes me as not so bad a tyrant as I had somehow imagined, and perhaps the matter might be patched up between you.
However, the truce between the two antagonists was patched up with a readiness on both sides.
Jacqueline pushed on her voyage of discovery, and her retinue trooped behind, single file, over the narrow, burning sidewalks of patched flagstone.
Next she bestowed frowning attention on the patchedundergarments in the bureau drawers.
Nancy's capable hands made short work of unpacking the books, the patched undergarments, and the few pitifully unattractive dresses.
The Mitsu’s patched wings glinted like silver in the early sunlight.
They patched her up in New Guinea—enough to fly her back to this Queensland repair base,” Curly Levitt explained.
Except for the patched places in her aluminum skin, there was little to show that she was not a new ship.
A patched piece of sacking served him as inner robe, and a hooded sheep's skin as cloak or chlamys.
Suddenly, he pointed out to Julian an old man, clothed in a patched and tattered tunic; Julian immediately recognised a temple priest.
He had the violet nose of a drunkard, wore Libyan breeches, patched and botched here and there, and on his head a Phrygian cap.
The gospels and the Acts of the Apostles present a patched and uneven record, but there can be little question that on the whole it is a quite honest record of those early days.
Sheep patched the fields with gray and followed their sleepy banquet across the hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
