patched up
Example Sentences
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Yet by the next day reporters were working from home; broken glass was replaced; laptops sourced; the sixth-floor newsroom patched up.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
The Liberal Party leader said both parties had patched up with an agreement that neither party could overturn decisions taken by the coalition's joint "shadow cabinet" of senior lawmakers.
From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026
The home side had a patched up pace attack and first-choice spinner Shoaib Bashir is out with a broken finger.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2025
The city has for years patched up Palos Verdes Drive South as it has shifted due to the peninsula’s landslide complex.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2024
Skillets, beds, patched up spare inner tubes all hanging and dangling from the ancient cars on the outside and hopeful humanity, herded and hovered on the inside, chugging on to the muck.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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