How to Use patchwork quilt in a Sentence

patchwork quilt

noun
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  • Her limbs twitched under the coarse sheets and the gaudy patchwork quilt.
    — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 15 Mar. 2023
  • The Tibetan flag is a patchwork quilt of color and spirit.
    — Wired, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The states are a patchwork quilt of laws governing the sale, licensure, carriage and use of guns.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • As the plane dipped below the clouds, an endless patchwork quilt of green fields and russet hedges stretched out beneath me.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 18 June 2020
  • Every window and door has a wood frame, which helped in connecting the pieces like a patchwork quilt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Irish patchwork quilts made their debut in the motherland in the early 1800s.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Have your partner throw on a brightly colored patchwork quilt over an all-black suit.
    — Julia Marzovilla, Marie Claire, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The divide is so stark airline passengers can see it—a patchwork quilt of green farms on one side, a vast expanse of brown and gold on the other.
    — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The sails on the tiny art installation The Ship of Tolerance look at first like a colorful patchwork quilt.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
  • This pretty blanket is an authentic patchwork quilt, just like the ones your grandma used to make.
    — Camryn Rabideau, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Jones was among those who taped the placards to the walls of the San Francisco Federal Building, which ended up looking like a patchwork quilt.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2023
  • These walls are the binding threads of a nearly unbroken patchwork quilt of what had once been fields, pastures, woodlots and meadows.
    — Robert Thorson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Put a white fitted sheet with a flowered top sheet and striped pillowcases, then layer on a patchwork quilt.
    — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 July 2019
  • Pair a white fitted sheet with a flowered top sheet and striped pillowcases, then layer on a patchwork quilt.
    — Marni Jameson, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • But a bird soaring above the ground below would see a patchwork quilt of white and green interwoven within the broad stretches of dusty brown that define the terrain.
    — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The couple bought a tiny patchwork quilt of a house begun in the 17th century, and planted 20 varieties of willow outside it.
    — Deborah Needleman, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Folded across a living-room banister is a patchwork quilt sewn by her sister-in-law Nancy showing a line of trees and a Bigfoot.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2019
  • Tourists, campers and hikers faced the patchwork quilt of electrical outages at getaway destinations in the Bay Area.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Gone would be the patchwork quilt of private apartments and commercial hotel rooms rented simply to put a roof over someone's head.
    — Nina Agrawal, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
  • The North American electric grid is a patchwork quilt, not a single entity.
    — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
  • And out came two-tone satin cowboy shirts with contrasting satin trousers or pencil skirts, branded patchwork quilts, jeans and jean jackets with paint rolled over thick on one side.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Your partner will fall in love with this vintage, premium patchwork quilt that only gets better (and softer) in time.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Highly stylized, each scene looks like a patchwork quilt rendered in Magic Marker.
    — Amy Rose Spiegel, The Cut, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Public pensions are regulated by a thin patchwork quilt of state and local laws.
    — Edward Siedle, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Arranged in the topsy-turvy manner of a patchwork quilt, these elements fill the page and push forward with an energy that is both modern and primal.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • There were about 60 of us, mostly Millennials, our yoga mats corner to corner like a patchwork quilt.
    — Andrew Dubbins, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Oct. 2017
  • This has resulted in a global map of Covid-19 infection rates that resembles a patchwork quilt.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The defense has potential playmakers but linebacker is a patchwork quilt of holdovers and second-chance transfers.
    — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 28 May 2021
  • As sure as the leaves have already begun drifting into shades of gold, pumpkin has fully settled over the South like a patchwork quilt (with no regard to the temperature).
    — Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Michelle Obama, baring her famous arms, sits in her 6-by-5 foot portrait by Amy Sherald in flowing dress with aspects of a patchwork quilt, floating in a background of robin’s egg blue.
    — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018

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