How to use Patchy in a sentence

They are now greatly damaged by patchy repaintings.

Whatever way we did it the league would be extremely patchy.

This leads to a patchy distribution of littoral biotopes.

Sections of the lung away from the tumor site showed patchy bronchopneumonia with evidence of edema.

The spatial area covered by this project is, by virtue of the patchy nature of the data, somewhat diffuse.

Visibility then improving to 10 km with patchy drizzle.

These small, patchy woods are often the only relief from closely grazed grasslands or moorland.

Biopsies taken from this area reveal an incomplete, patchy, intestinal metaplasia with goblet cells.

Their resolution was vague and patchy, with a token nod to socialism.

In this context, the record of New Labor is decidedly patchy.

In summary, cycling progress by Scottish Councils is exceedingly patchy.

Social services Provision of domestic violence services by social service departments is geographically patchy.

The program's level of detail is somewhat patchy.

However, the Law Society survey presents a rather patchy picture.

The electrical grid remains patchy; nobody seems to know why.

However, the quality of the songs had become more patchy.

Most retail systems vendors missed their targets in 2001 and 2002 and 2003 is looking patchy.

The lack of joint planning or joint local action resulted in services appearing patchy.

Despite picket lines at Swiss Cottage and Kilburn branches, however, services stayed up and running as the strike action proved patchy.

Melasma is increased pigmentation, usually on the face, in a rather patchy distribution.

A patchy residual topsoil layer was seen in places which produced 17th century pottery.

In the middle section there is still a fair amount of riverside paths but in the upper reaches and tributaries public access is patchy.

Fog and mist until 10.00 hours, considerable cloud at 3,000 feet with patchy stratus near surface to 11.00 hours, reforming after dusk.

She also tends to curve to the right and has patchy alopecia.

Although the record is patchy, Stubb's election was subsequently annulled on the basis that he failed to submit the requisite Diploma work.

Here there was patchy thin cloud with sunshine at first with the cloud thickening during the morning.

A ringworm infection also causes the type of patchy hair loss you describe, so this is another avenue for your vet to investigate.

The jury is still out on that one because normally the skin would have patchy spots and Jackson's is smooth.

Children with this condition usually have patchy hair loss with some broken hairs visible just above the surface of the scalp.

The hair loss associated with trichotillomania is patchy and is characterized by broken hairs of varying length.

Localized shadows obscuring areas of the lung may indicate a bacterial pneumonia, while streaky or patchy changes in the x-ray film may indicate viral or mycoplasma pneumonia.

Usually, the hair loss on the head is patchy or poorly defined.

Patchy thin brows can easily make you feel less than gorgeous in a beauty world where strong, well-defined arches are revered.

Her hair is extremely short and patchy from doing this for over six years, and she spends hours at a time in front of a mirror pulling out hairs.

Using lime juice and witch hazel is also an effective cleanser for this skin type if you are experiencing a "patchy" look after applying your makeup.