patch quilt
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“There is this ugly irony … that the Ghost Ship was called a ship, but what it was basically was a chaotic patch quilt of businesses, human relations, tenancies, friendships,” Weisberg said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
The neighborhood looked like a patch quilt of destruction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2018
Oregon, we hear, is prepared to answer Sarkisian's perceived insult by running into Autzen Stadium wearing a patch quilt of all 8,000 of its uniform combinations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2015
She had made him a body dress from an old patch quilt, the figures worked in yellow and red.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.
Pretty chintz curtains hung at the window, and a patch quilt of more colors than were in Joseph's coat covered the little truckle-bed.
From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
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