How to Use patchwork quilt in a Sentence

patchwork quilt

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Scientists have proposed to send a probe Io for closer look at the moon’s lava flows, which are stitched together like a psychedelic patchwork quilt.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 7 Apr. 2020
• With track runtimes rarely exceeding two minutes, the Brit somehow manages to weave together a patchwork quilt of sounds from snippets of ‘90s bangers, classic R&B and alt-rock anthems.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
• Roberta Frederick, who came from Chicago to spend time with her family in Lake County, marveled at a patchwork quilt that was crafted in the 1880s and enclosed in a protective case.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 25 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024