What is "patchily"

Usage examples of "patchily".

South was low ground, traditionally poorer, now patchily gentrified, but with a unique nature of its own.

Nevertheless, Amalfi had hardly expected to see the return of He, under wholly controlled spindizzy drive, in barely a century and a half, still faintly, patchily blue-green with cultivation under cloud-banks which glared a brilliant white in the light of a nearby Cepheid variable star.