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Example sentences for "potch"

Lexicographically close words:
potato; potatoe; potatoes; potatos; potboy; pote; poteen; potence; potencies; potency
  1. On getting out he gave this card to his coachman, telling him to drive--as fast as possible to the Hotch Potch Club, and if Mr. Jolyon Forsyte were there to give him the card and bring him at once.

  2. Except to lunch now and then at the Hotch-Potch with his father, he had never been in a London Club.

  3. I could come to the Hotch Potch if you prefer it.

  4. Hotch Potch Club," he said through the trap-door.

  5. While the rolls baked, Molly prepared the liver for the dinner, and told Marta to make the Scotch hotch-potch for the Gibbs family.

  6. We, in America, are a new people, a vast hotch-potch of varied and contradictory elements.

  7. The church in which they met was dimly lighted; when, at a quarter before six, Potch appeared, and satisfied the people by relating that the governor had refused him a pass, because his ship was not properly cleared.

  8. A report was made that Potch (the owner of the Dartmouth) had been refused a clearance from the collector.

  9. Bidding Potch make all haste, the meeting adjourned to three in the afternoon.

  10. Hence has risen that hotch-potch of a philosophy of constant quantity distinct from the substance, until it has come to such a pass that they themselves no longer know what are accidents and what is substance.

  11. Consequently there is nothing in the friar's fuming about permission; it is a hotch-potch without Scripture, reason or sense.

  12. Prithee, by what authority and with what reasons does he establish his hotch-potch about the angels, in his Celestial Hierarchy?

  13. As usual the good surface of the highway stopped and the roads through the town turned from the perfect concrete to an infernal hotch-potch of holes, gullies, ruts and mounds.

  14. After climbing 1,000 feet in just over a mile, it changed into the most absurd hotch-potch of ruts and mud-heaps that ever eye witnessed, and this for as far as one could see.

  15. These books are a hotch-potch of aphorisms, more or less obscure, and of a host of special recipes.

  16. I could potch him again this minute for how he wanted it!

  17. Put down that loaf and wait until your mother dishes up or you'll get a potch you won't soon forget.

  18. He was able to regard the hotch-potch of European nationalities and traditions from an aloof and judicial viewpoint.

  19. It was produced at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in 1816, and is a wonderful hotch-potch of musical styles from Handel to Bishop.

  20. Put down that loaf and wait until your mother dishes up, or you'll get a potch you won't soon forget.

  21. She knew Potch loved her with all the passion of a virile man as well as with a love like the ocean into which all her misdeeds of commission and omission might be dropped.

  22. After a while she knew Potch was holding her, and that he was saying: "It's all right!

  23. That's a nice bit of colour, Michael," he said, admiring a small piece of grey potch with a black strain which flashed needling rays of green and gold.

  24. He felt as if he were really guilty of the thing Potch might suspect him guilty of: either of being a miser and hoarding opal from his mate, or of having come by the stones as he had come by them.

  25. When Potch returned from the mine that afternoon; he went into Michael's hut before going home.

  26. George and Watty and Cash had "no time," as they said themselves, for Rouminof; and Potch as a rule stayed in the shelter with Paul when Michael went over to talk with George and Watty.

  27. Potch remembered having seen a gathering of the men, like this, only once before on the fields.

  28. Yes," Potch said, and the silence streamed between them again.

  29. Michael had watched him when they were below ground, and was surprised at the way Potch set about his work.

  30. I want you and Potch to stand by me in this, Michael.

  31. That's the sort of man I am," Potch said, his voice harsh and unsteady.

  32. Potch cleared away the litter of the meal while Michael went out to meet the old man.

  33. But Maud----" Potch turned his head from her.

  34. She watched Potch while he strained the milk and poured it into big, flat dishes on a bench under the window.

  35. It is always thus in any mere "cosmopolitan mess," any "hotch-potch of nationalities.

  36. Such a hotch-potch of concerts was sickening to him: one at a time was enough for him.

  37. I find a note which I introduce here, as I hardly know where to place it in this hotch-potch of confessions.

  38. Now, this word hotch-potch in English is a pudding; for in such a pudding is not commonly one thing only, but one thing with another.

  39. So then this hotch-potch seems a term of similitude?

  40. It may be illustrated accordingly with variety of examples in the subdivisions of it, and with as many precepts as there are members of it, which all together may complete that olla or hotch-potch which is properly a satire.

  41. This word satura has been afterward applied to many other sorts of mixtures; as Festus calls it, a kind of olla or hotch-potch made of several sorts of meats.

  42. I will thank you for another information, and that as speedily as you please: whether this miserable drawling hotch-potch epistle has not completely tired you of my correspondence?


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.