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How to use patch in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Patch means a piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole. Example: “His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.”

Examples of patch by meaning

nounA piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it...

  • His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.

nounA small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

  • I can't afford to replace the roof, which is what it really needs. I'll have the roofer apply a patch.

nounA piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not...

  • Before you can fix a dam, you have to apply a patch to the hole so that everything can dry off.
  • "This patch should hold until you reach the city," the mechanic said as he patted the car's hood.

nounA small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size).

  • The world economy had a rough patch in the 1930s.
  • To me, a normal cow is white with black patches, but Sarah's from Texas and most of the cows there have solid brown, black, or red coats.
  • Doesn't that patch of clouds looks like a bunny?

nounA small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.

  • scattered patches of trees or growing corn
  • There was a blackberry patch down by the creek, and his grandparents called the pasture down there the cow patch.
  • Just the suggestion that a good blueberry patch was near would bring everything to a standstill.1940 November, “Notes and News: Railway Operation Ad Lib”, in Railway Magazine, pages 611–612

nounA local region of professional responsibility.

  • There is a lot to be said in praise of the local or regional outlet that keeps very closely across the doings and news in their patch.2012, Bruce Grundy, Martin Hirst, Janine Little, So You Want To Be A Journalist?: Unplugged, →ISBN, page 44

nounAn adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over...

  • Many people use a nicotine patch to wean themselves off of nicotine.

nounA cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.

  • He had scratched his cornea so badly that his doctor told him to wear a patch.

More sentences with patch

  • They patched up their differences, but matters did not end there.From the entry there
  • I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.From the entry search
  • There was a decided ugliness to the patch of waste ground.From the entry decided
  • He wrote a periphrastic love letter to his wife to patch up their relationship.From the entry periphrastic
  • The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.From the entry subfenestral
  • I needed to patch up my trousers after ripping them on the brambles.From the entry patch up
  • You need to patch things up with your sister after that horrible argument.From the entry patch up
  • The new model is not a patch on the original version.From the entry not a patch on
  • Bob accidentally spun out his Mercedes when he hit a patch of black ice.From the entry spin out
  • Swamp gas occasionally catches fire. Sometimes lightning sets off a patch of swamp gas.From the entry swamp gas
  • The use of hot patches allows the server to be kept fully up-to-date without any reboot-induced downtime.From the entry hot patch
  • She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.From the entry strawberry
  • Your bald patch is starting to show.From the entry show
  • I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.From the entry scrap
  • I'd be more than happy to upstream your patch.From the entry upstream
  • It was easy add his the new merit badge to his uniform because the patch had a hot seal backing.From the entry hot seal
  • That dratted cat's been in the vegetable patch again.From the entry dratted
  • Although rationing was strict, they had a couple of chickens and a vegetable patch and they ate well, all things considered.From the entry all things considered
  • Hot patching is easiest in the summer, when the asphalt is easier to keep hot during the application process.From the entry hot patch
  • The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.From the entry retrofit
  • The rewoven patch is stronger than the original cloth, but only because the rest of the material has worn weak by now.From the entry rewoven
  • Cold patch the holes in the road so people can still drive on it until we can get something more permanent done.From the entry cold patch
  • Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.From the entry cropped
  • Their plans to finish the garden that weekend hit a snag when an unseasonal snowfall dropped several inches on what should have become the pumpkin patch that day.From the entry hit a snag
  • He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way.From the entry tearout
  • The researchers hope that the energy needed to make the pyrolysis oil from the garbage patch can be supplied by solar-plus-battery installations and new types of geothermal systems.From the entry pyrolysis oil
  • Hey guys, Scott here with my first impressions of the Jason 10th anniversary patch.2026 May 26, Scott Jund, Jason Patch First Impressions Are Alright - Dead by Daylight. From the entry whelm

Meaning of patch

  1. noun A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
  2. noun A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  3. noun A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.

Full definition of patch

Questions about patch in a sentence

How do you use patch in a sentence?
Patch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “His sleeves had patches on the elbows where different fabric had been sewn on to replace material that had worn away.”
What is a short sentence with patch?
“Your bald patch is starting to show.”
What does patch mean?
Patch means a piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patch (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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