Sentence examples for patchy memory from inspiring English sources

"But because I was 8 when I left, which is really quite a young age, I have quite a patchy memory of my life there".

"But because I was eight when I left, which is really quite a young age, I have quite a patchy memory of my life there".

In her old age, with only a patchy memory of the past, it still hurt her that her older brother had been the preferred child.

The late 1980s is now a mercifully patchy memory, but I'm fairly sure I was cat-sitting for some lesbian friends, which, as Maupin fans will recognise, was an entirely apt introduction.

I mostly blame my patchy memory for that, but also the fact that many of these mixes don't have a definitive list, only versions, each championed by a particular family, restaurant or shop.

From the patchy memory intact, Marcel Dettmann closed the festival with a robust finale, and as 1am rolled around, the crowd's dispersed over a carpet of empty cans and bottles to find whichever after-party floated their boat, rounding off yet another illuminating instalment of a festival that you're sure to be hearing a lot more from.

A committee has formed to try to get Grace acquitted and brings in a flashy young psychiatrist whose job it is to fill in her now patchy memories of the killings.

Suddenly, instead of my own vivid but patchy childhood memories, I had his words before me, with ironical marginalia from Grandma: "Here the fun begins" and "Love begins (fool!)".

Mr. Jiménez, whose memory is patchy, said he remembered nothing about his time in the United States — not Indiantown, not his job as a gardener, not the accident and not the hospital.

Last year Cattrall appeared in Roman Polanski's film The Ghost Writer, playing a brittle secretary, and other than her decidedly patchy RP accent, the memory of which still makes her wince, the film was well-received.

Hilary Mantel explains her own confidence in her memories as growing from their vivid physicality: Though my early memories are patchy, I think they are not, or not entirely confabulation, and I believe this because of their overwhelming sensory power; they come complete, not like the groping, generalized formulations of the subjects fooled by the photograph.