in patches

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: in spots

The chair's original paint is still visible in patches.

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Even though swamp land near the equator was rapidly drying up during the Permian Period, swamps and lakes possibly remained in patches alongside ice and glaciers closer to the poles. —

Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024 One of them pointed to a Barbie with vitiligo, a condition that causes loss of pigmentation in patches on the skin. —

Gregory Wakeman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024 Trying to sleep, in patches, the wife crossed a rushing stream on stepping stones that were unsteady beneath her feet; below them, in the water, swarms of small dark sluglike creatures waited for her bare feet to slip. —

Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024 Open-source hardware design faces challenges that open-source software didn’t, such as greater costs, a smaller professional community, and inability to supply bug-fixes in patches after the product is released, explains lowRISC CEO Gavin Ferris. —

IEEE Spectrum, 13 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for in patches