How to Use patch together in a Sentence
patch together
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Short-term financing patched together to cover a long-term need.
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Benjie Nunn,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
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Trust is built over years of consistent behavior; it cannot be patched together during an emergency.
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Jonathan Jordan,
Fortune,
27 May 2026
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In this way, his music is honest about the struggle to patch together sturdy faith and purpose in a world starving for connection.
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H.d. Angel,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2026
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Most guides are patching together a year of work by bouncing from operation to operation to build a living.
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Corey Buhay,
Outside,
19 Nov. 2025
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Boston, which sits just under the NBA’s luxury tax line, has leaned on familiar faces to patch together the back end of its roster.
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Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Then there’s the financial (and administrative) obligation of patching together camps that cost hundreds of dollars per week, per child.
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Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
4 June 2026
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Frank Dillane stars as Mike, a drifter in London sleeping on the city streets and attempting to patch together his life while caught in the throes of addiction.
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Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Sep. 2025
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An aging air-conditioning system — patched together over years — finally gave out, just as Georgia's intense summer heat looms.
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Brian Unger,
CBS News,
3 May 2026
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Berger expects to patch together a combination of private funding and public financing.
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Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
1 Dec. 2025
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In the past, companies were patching together products from dozens of cybersecurity vendors.
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Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
19 Aug. 2025
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To compensate, companies patch together shadow meters, manual invoices, and spreadsheet rate cards.
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Scott Woody,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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The Sooners' offensive line was an unmitigated mess last season, patched together with transfers and eventually beset by injuries.
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Chase Goodbread,
The Tuscaloosa News,
17 Sep. 2025
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As a boy growing up in Port Arthur, Texas, an oil refinery town of sulfurous air, Rauschenberg often wore clothes his mother had patched together from assorted fabric scraps.
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Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Everything in popular culture feels recycled or reanimated or patched together out of preexisting elements.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
27 Nov. 2025
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The traditional school schedule also leaves families without child care during summer break, requiring parents to patch together various camps and enrichment activities as prices for such services continue to surge.
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Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2026
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While the best arms in the bullpen patched together 15 outs Saturday, there was no going to the well a second time Sunday, especially after Montas put the Mets in a 7-1 hole.
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Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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It’s all patched together by his voiceover, occasionally droll, occasionally silly, occasionally thoroughly serious.
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Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Many Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) still run on infrastructure designed decades ago, patched together to handle cell phones and newer forms of communication.
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Jason Truppi,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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After patching together local lore and historical accounts, archaeologist Jonathan Burns, military veterans and Fort Ligonier staff found the battlefield on private property in 2022.
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Salena Zito,
Washington Post,
1 July 2026
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In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.
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Theo Belci,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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