Sentence examples for a patchwork of narrow from inspiring English sources

To make itself more accessible to commuters, Emeryville spent $30 million in the early 1990's to cut major thoroughfares through the city, which until then had only a patchwork of narrow roads.

Midan is one of the oldest, more traditional quarters, a labyrinthine patchwork of narrow streets and old stone houses that attracted the rebel fighters partly because the army's heavy weaponry is difficult to maneuver in the neighborhood.

Right now, America's aging power grid resembles the patchwork of narrow, winding, badly maintained highways of the 1920s and 1930s.

Old Beijing was a patchwork of neighbourhoods made up of courtyard houses on narrow lanes known as hutongs.

Highly visible violations of privacy have tended to generate specific -- and, often, narrow -- legal responses, leading to a patchwork of legal remedies.

We're a patchwork of small towns".

"We saw a patchwork of different decisions".

Baghdad is a patchwork of building sites.

The result is a patchwork of laws.

"The states have a patchwork of laws.

Growth led to a patchwork of neighbourhood green spaces.