Patched Sentence Examples

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  • He was patched up pretty good.

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  • Peace was once more patched up with Florence in 1454.

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  • His clothes were of many pieces patched together, the colour of dirt.

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  • It was not until 1869 that peace was patched up, and the settlement arrived at left the mountain tribes in practical independence.

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  • Mr. Westlake, dressed in his usual dusty and patched attire, pressed Cynthia for the reason behind her unusual reticence.

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  • Sir Alfred Milner reached the Cape in May 1897, and after the difficulties with President Kruger over the Aliens' Law had been patched up he was free by August to make himself personally acquainted with the country and peoples before deciding on the lines of policy to be adopted.

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  • Code breakers and linguists were consulted, chemists and biologists patched up their differences and worked together, and scientific groups were formed to share information and theories.

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  • These notices do not, for the most part, square particularly well with the fragmentary British narrative that can be patched together from Gildass lamentable book, or the confused story of Nennius.

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  • Two holes in skin on each leg are patched on the exterior with cream dehaired sealskin sewn with sinew in running stitch.

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  • An arrangement was patched up, and while Hadrian was still in Dacia he received news of a conspiracy against his life.

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  • Imagine a million square miles of empty desert, an unmapped land patched with treacherous quicksand, a blisteringly hot place lashed by sandstorms.

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  • One leg was patched up with an untidy bandage kept in position by a wrinkled stocking.

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  • Even if the particular divisions over Respect are patched over, the CPB has a programmatic time bomb ticking away deep in its bowels.

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  • The progress of this war, the peace hastily patched up, the equally hasty alliance and its consequences, being matters of Chinese history, are treated in the article China.

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  • Broken in 1840 during the affair of Mehemet Ali the entente was patched up in 1841 by the Straits Convention and re-cemented by visits paid by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to the Château d'Eu in 1843 and 1845 and of Louis Philippe to Windsor in 1844, only to be irretrievably wrecked by the affair of the "Spanish marriages," a deliberate attempt to revive the traditional Bourbon policy of French predominance in Spain.

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  • If so, does it look like it was professionally repaired or patched over?

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  • The vests could be embroidered, colorfully patched or even written on.

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  • And thanks to the hard drive, PC games can be patched, for better or worse.

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  • Wipe down your walls and sand any patched parts before you begin.

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  • Check out nightgowns in heavy applique and patched designs, similar to a crazy quilt.

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  • Also featured in a DVD "Easter-egg" was Marilyn Manson, with whom Trent had patched things up.

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  • The late night storm had blown Wednesday's hazy whiteness east to New Jersey and the Atlantic beyond, leaving in its place a high pressure system, a sky painted deep blue and patched with just enough puffy clouds for contrast.

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  • The sacred buildings, mosques, &c., were patched up (except a few which were quite ruinous) and the walls wholly removed, but an unsightly fragment of a palace-tower still remained in 1906.

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  • St Epiphanius, bishop of Milan, patched up a truce, but in 472 Ricimer was again before Rome with an army of Germans,.

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  • Nevertheless a hollow peace was patched up, which continued during four years with lack of all governance.

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  • In 1592 Sigismund married the Austrian archduchess Anne, and the same year a reconciliation was patched up between the king and the chancellor to enable the former to secure possession of his Swedish throne vacant by the death of his father John III.

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  • Broken in 1840 during the affair of Mehemet Ali the entente was patched up in 1841 by the Straits Convention and re-cemented by visits paid by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to the Château d'Eu in 1843 and 1845 and of Louis Philippe to Windsor in 1844, only to be irretrievably wrecked by the affair of the "Spanish marriages," a deliberate attempt to revive the traditional Bourbon policy of French predominance in Spain.

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  • Haugwitz (1700-1765); the motley system which had survived from the middle ages was gradually replaced by an administrative machinery uniformly organized and centralized; and the army especially, hitherto patched together from the quotas raised and maintained by the various diets and provincial estates, was withdrawn from their interference.

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  • After the first Diet of Spires (1526), where a precarious peace was patched up for the reformed faith, Melanchthon was deputed as one of twenty-eight commissioners to visit the reformed states and regulate the constitution of churches, he having just published a famous treatise called the Libellus visitatorius, a directory for the use of the commissioners.

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  • Although preparations were made for following up the war with Persia and securing the frontier, a truce was patched up, rather to the disadvantage of the empire, Armenia and the adjacent country being half conquered and annexed by Shapur.

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  • Peace was then patched up by the compact of Zborow (August 21, 1649), whereby Chmielnicki was virtually recognized as a semi-independent prince.

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  • Huber found that although he could induce swarms to occupy the glass-sided single frame advised by Reaumur, if the frame was fitted with ready-built pieces of comb patched together before hiving the swarm, the experiment was successful, while if left to themselves the bees built small combs across the space between the sheets of glass, and the desired inspection from the outside was thus rendered impossible.

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  • The regent's disreputable minister, Cardinal Dubois, patched up an abortive truce in 1720, but the appellants promptly "re-appealed" against it.

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  • For, though the quarrel with popular anthropomorphism was patched up, and the gods of the Pantheon were described by Stoics and Epicureans as manlike in form, philosophy nevertheless tended to highly abstract conceptions of supreme, or real, deity.

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  • Overalls can be hemmed or patched without looking too shabby.

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  • When finishing a room, having the right drywall installation technique can mean the difference between a professional looking job and one that looks patched and bumpy.

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  • Chances are there has been some water leakage over the years and some parts of the wall may need to be patched, replaced or skim coated.Remove any damaged tiles and cut out damp or wet drywall.

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  • This helps the patched area blend in better with the surrounding sheetrock.

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  • Has the canvas been replaced or patched?

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  • Those who have been patched must be re-evaluated within 24 hours to see if the symptoms have improved.

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  • If the bowels are injured or malrotated, this will be repaired, and the hole in the diaphragm is sewn closed and patched, if necessary, with surgical mesh.

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  • I broke up with mine and he patched up his.

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  • The ballerina flat, in either Blueberry Glam Fruit or Sweet Potato, comes in a tweed fabric with a white faux leather patched fruit design and matching embroidery.

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  • They patched up soon enough, but Ben's feelings for Mandy faded eventually.

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  • The French court would not accept his overtures, and it was only in the summer of 1401 that a truce was patched up by the restoration of Richard's child-queen, Isabella of Valois.

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  • Some disputes between Baden and Bavaria remained unsettled, and many questions arising out of the new federal constitution of Germany, which had been hurriedly patched together under the influence of the news of Napoleon's return, had to be postponed for further discussion, and were not settled until the Final Act agreed upon by the conference of German statesmen at Vienna in 1821.

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  • Occulsion therapy-A type of treatment for amblyopia in which the good eye is patched for a period of time, thus forcing the use of the weaker eye.

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  • The first time, was when he patched up his relationship with his partner.

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  • After July 1516 Douglas appears to have been in possession of his see, and to have patched up a diplomatic peace with Albany.

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