Sentence examples for patch about from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'patch about' is not a grammatically correct phrase in written English and should not be used.
However, a similar phrase, ‘patter about’, could be used instead. For example, ‘She pattered about the kitchen while cooking breakfast.’.

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Some plaster flaked off, a patch about three feet wide.

GARDEN CITY Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau Pumpkin Patch, about 6,000 pumpkins.

But there is nothing it can do with a software patch about the fixed lower limit, below which the phone cannot maintain a call.

They placed 78 blue diamonds, including the Hope, in an apparatus that fired gallium ions, which peeled off atoms from a patch about one five-hundredth of an inch wide.

One of them, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is a luminous patch about 5° in diameter, and the other, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), measures less than 2° across.

For the last three weekends in April, in this pastoral patch about 20 miles north of Baltimore, the locals gather for steeplechase's Triple Crown: My Lady's Manor, the Grand National and the Maryland Hunt Cup.

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For four years, this patch of about 15,000 souls has been my fiefdom, my chance to make a difference and put something back.

But watching pipe being cut or stills being patched is about as exciting as it sounds.

Today, when Colonel Brunk thinks back on his deployment, there are extended patches about which he cannot recall a thing.

The crew goes through about five tons of asphalt a day and usually patches about 30 holes per shift, depending on the size, Mr. McCants said.

Fry until the shallots begin to caramelise, turning golden brown in patches: about 6 8 minutes should do the trick. 2 Add the sugar to the pan.

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