How do you use the word "patch" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "patch" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "patch": Let's patch up our argument. We've been through a rough patch, but I hope it will have made us stronger.

Patch Meaning

/pæt͡ʃ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA 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.

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

Sentence Examples

Let's patch up our argument.

We've been through a rough patch, but I hope it will have made us stronger.

A black dog with a white patch on its back

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

piece spot plot

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He sewed a denim ____ over the hole in his old jeans.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The gardener planted a small ____ of strawberries near the fence at the back of the garden.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”). Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"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:

"[…] formed a contact with a man, who was the secretary of the tenants' association of a small housing estate in the social worker's patch." — 1980, Noel Parry, Michael Rustin, Carole Satyamurti, Social Work, Welfare & the State, page 101:

"Your black patches you wear variously." — 1625, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Elder Brother. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:

"...Then the patches had to be placed—patches full of sentiment, coquetry, and bits of opinions as minute as themselves. Essences and powder had to he scattered together, and Henrietta's long black tresses gathered into a mass which might fairly set all the orders of architecture at defiance." — 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 169:

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