How to Use crazy quilt in a Sentence

crazy quilt

noun

• But what took the longest was sorting out what amounted to a crazy quilt of parcels under the two, roughly 9,000-square-foot brownstones.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• There's a real crazy quilt of tariffs and fees and things, and this would have simplified a lot of that for the Asian markets, which are huge markets for U.S. meat these days.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2017
• The walls were covered with ones, jasper, porphyry, and a dozen different marbles and, set in this crazy quilt, were carved, crystal medallions.
  — Lucy Yeomans, House Beautiful, 10 June 2021
• Such data don’t include people who didn’t have access to health care, didn’t seek it, or gave up, thinking there was no help for their crazy quilt of symptoms.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 July 2022
• Fittingly, the barn holds one of the most interesting blocks on the trail, a crazy quilt in honor of Margo’s great-great grandmother, a quilter.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], al, 13 July 2022
• After four centuries of building and razing, almost every block is a crazy quilt of structures and styles, and every era has its problems.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• Riot Fest is a weird, diverse, crazy quilt of humanity, from old punks breaking out their best mohawks and ancient tour t-shirts, to people there to explore.
  — Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• But the patchwork of stations is a crazy quilt compared to Tesla’s uniform, multi-stall superchargers.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2020
• According to oral tradition, the two systems incorporated a pre-1883 hodgepodge of pipes – some wooden, wells, and springs that ran in a crazy quilt hither and yon.
  — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 12 Mar. 2021
• The cuts resulted in a crazy quilt of premiums for 2018 that differs radically from the pattern of the last four years, which will upend expectations of consumers in many states.
  — Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2017
• More border crossings have opened, helping unite families divided by Central Asia’s crazy quilt of frontiers.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Reading websites these days feels like navigating a crazy quilt of opt-in forms and privacy-policy disclosures.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• As that data streams by on the computer screen of the sleeping mind, some of it gets snatched up and randomly stitched into the crazy quilt of dreams, which often only vaguely resemble the literal content of the information.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Sep. 2017
• The Carlsbad Music Festival is like a sonic crazy quilt, accompanied by an artisan market, food court and beer garden.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2019
• His career has been a fascinating hodgepodge of feints and fake-outs, a crazy quilt of dumb-smart action flicks, brainy meta-meditations, daring experiments, rom-coms, family films.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• The show is a crazy quilt of character sketches, cooking tutorials, musical numbers and journaling.
  — Emily Gaudette, Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2017
• This results in a crazy quilt of punitive approaches to pregnant women with drug problems, which vary arbitrarily by region, county and local politics.
  — Jennifer Egan, New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Prober’s creations can take the form of moto jackets fashioned from 19th-century crazy quilts or feed bags, or wonderfully Miss Havisham–meets-punk dresses, often made of patchworked pieces of lace, a material she’s particularly drawn to.
  — Vogue, 11 Apr. 2019
• The defense characterized the government theory as a crazy quilt of bad inferences, perjured testimony and junk science, stitched together in a vengeful bid to destroy a criminal defense attorney whose only crime was doing his job too well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024