patchwork 的 3 个定义
- something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- work made of pieces of cloth or leather of various colors or shapes sewed together, used especially for covering quilts, cushions, etc.
- resembling a patchwork, especially in being makeshift, irregular, or improvised: a patchwork policy of dispensing foreign aid.
- to make as patchwork: She specializes in patchworking skirts.
- to assemble or connect in making patchwork: to patchwork neckties into bedspreads.
patchwork 近义词
mixture, hodgepodge
更多patchwork例句
- Rather than those little multihued flakes, the snack version is formed into a wafer that looks like a colorful patchwork quilt.
- The Buccaneers’ pass rush is creating problems for the Chiefs’ patchwork offensive line, to no one’s surprise.
- Making it harder is a chaotic, patchwork system for getting shots in arms.
- The court’s refusal to hear the case leaves a murky patchwork of laws making it easier for us to buy wines online from wineries than from retailers.
- That allowed the rising sun to pour its rays into the sky unobstructed from the east, the sunlight then catching on the patchwork of upper-level clouds.
- The lab opened the door to a patchwork of grants from around the world which allowed Lavie to begin auditioning actresses.
- We have a patchwork system in which some people are covered, and others wait and wait.
- A patchwork of building shells and cratered streets, the city tells of a cyclical war, still smoldering.
- Petite a-frame suede mini-skirts featured patchwork pockets or cut-out patterns on leather.
- Other parents use a patchwork of care with a different plan in place every day.
- This patchwork way of constructing engines made success much more difficult.
- What do you suppose my friend the Patchwork Girl would think of me, if she saw me wearing this beastly shape?
- Worn-out clothes were returned to the vlicus to be made up into patchwork quilts.
- Minnie was placed in Mrs. Thimbleby's own high-backed chair, with the clean patchwork-covered cushions piled behind her.
- Envelopes, notes, the Baltimore Sun, and other papers were strewn thick over the silk patchwork quilt.