How to Use patch up in a Sentence

patch up

phrasal verb
Definition of patch upnext
  • So one of the big questions is, when do all these wounds get patched up?
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • But one of the state’s worst defenses in 2022 needs to have some holes patched up.
    — Shane Hoffmann | , oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The Rec enzymes would patch up the breaks by bringing in pieces of DNA from elsewhere in the cell.
    — Sarah Richardson, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • As the clouds darkened on the horizon, Staats scrambled to patch up SAM’s final few seams.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
  • In 2018, a Soyuz crew spacecraft sprang a tiny hole, which astronauts patched up.
    — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023
  • This was also a major cause of a historic $360 million deficit that Thao patched up last year.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • By Thursday afternoon, the wall appeared to be patched up.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
  • One hospital patched up his wound, but couldn’t extract the bullet.
    — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024
  • Crews worked overnight to get part of the rupture on the semi-truck patched up – which slowed down the leak but did not stop it completely, according to McMahon.
    — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The former best friends seem to have patched up their friendship, as they were seen grabbing dinner with friends in Los Angeles over the weekend.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2023
  • Much of the worst damage to U.S. alliances had been patched up by Bush’s second term or simply overtaken by new challenges.
    — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In terms of a single event, the Bengals might have had the best addition to their roster in the division with Orlando Brown Jr. to patch up the offensive line.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 13 July 2023
  • Crews are working to patch up a large sinkhole that formed Monday on the West Side, prompting road closures that are expected to last through Thursday.
    — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The two presidents had patched up relations after spats before, but now Clinton was out of time.
    — M. E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The officer called Amiri, who allegedly patched up the wall and warned the officer not to tell his wife, according to law enforcement sources.
    — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 July 2024
  • The two Ohio natives are trying to patch up a different community 400 miles away.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Plus, the whole kit is brightly colored and playful, which makes the experience of getting patched up much less frightening for youngsters.
    — Mandy Harris, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, officials in each country have attempted to patch up the wounds, but threats have lingered that the United States could revoke South Africa’s trade privileges.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The ability to gut-renovate an entire campus instead of patching up problems piecemeal opens up a new set of options.
    — Curbed, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Justin told cameras that the surprise vow renewal caught him off guard and said that the ceremony seemed like an attempt to patch up their issues without any real effort to fix them.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 20 July 2024
  • His statement comes after Spears shared a post Sunday on Instagram appearing to patch up any tensions with Timberlake.
    — Katherine Itoh, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But rather than let the injury deter her, the Brazilian gymnast quickly got patched up and then competed with a gnarly-looking bandaged eyebrow and black eye — cementing her badass status online.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2024
  • There are vast plots of land between homes littered with trash and fallen trees, some homes have cracked driveways and walls have been patched up with wood, a 2021 documentary produced by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas film school shows.
    — Isabel Yip, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • When Security Updates End Software updates keep your phone properly patched up and supplied with the latest new features.
    — WIRED, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Navigating through wounds patched up and reopened, the two siblings are confronted with a bittersweet perception of their father.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
  • This fiasco has bedeviled the administration ever since, with the Saudis blocking all attempts at patching up the rift.
    — Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The ministers wasted no time before pressing London for more money to patch up Northern Ireland's creaking public services.
    — Jill Lawless The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The resultant material produced could patch up leaky heart parts or stabilize spinal discs, among other applications.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Governments and private industry spent billions of dollars trying to patch up the computer problems in advance, and the big moment arrived with minimal disruption.
    — Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The film producer has previously affirmed his willingness to patch up his relationship with Yellowstone to return as patriarch John Dutton.
    — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024

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