patchily

Example Sentences

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Bored children twist on their parents arms and pull itchily at uncomfortable dresses.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2022

Ms. Langley’s performance, in the intimate space of the smallest 59E59 theater, feels so raw and real that it’s often itchily uncomfortable to watch.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2015

The pretence was horrendous: the acting, from those two and Genevieve O'Reilly and Claire Keelan as the wives, itchily good; and the class travails as unresolved as a century before.

From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2012

Though they do not know it at first, they would be just as itchily and angrily at home nearly anywhere else as they are in dreary old Leipzig.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beautiful Mr. Mature was also suffering itchily from primrose poisoning acquired when he was tarred, feathered and dumped in a bush for a film scene.

From Time Magazine Archive