What is "patchy"

Usage examples of "patchy".

So the apes needed to spend much of each day searching for patchy resources, foraging alone or in small groups, collecting together again to sleep in the treetop refuges.

THE PATCHY FOG was lifting by the time Merissa and Cagan reached the edge of the water where the two boats were tied.

She grew palea patchy pallor, which meant that her nerves were out of order.

The landscape rushed past in a blur, then the scramjet kicked in just as they cleared the end of the launch rail and the Navatar stood the plane on its tail, rising vertically through a scattering of patchy cumulus clouds at roach seven going on seventeen.

He had been wearing his beard in the jawline style of the Tule domain, Dev noted, but patchy stubble darkened his cheeks now.

He turned his back on me and again lifted one of the green slats and peered outside, letting in anarrow beam of light that angled across the patchy darkness of the office, and straight into my eyes.

It was lined with brindled fur, and with the toe of his boot he spread it out until it covered the patchy grass next to them.

The Federation has an educated but cheap and abundant labor force, a patchy welfare state, exportable natural endowments, a low tax burden and a pressing need for unhindered inflows of foreign investment.

It was a brindled, mountainy roan, its coat all patchy with sweat, its miserable flanks still shuddering.

Patchy necrosis and fibrosis of varying age, and chronic ischemia, plus an absence of coronary artery disease or cardiomegaly.

Covered in patchy grey fur, it was wearing stripy socks and a brightly coloured waistcoat of questionable taste.

Nine skylights lit the place, through which patchy blue sky showed above unthawed snow.

The Count wore his fighting clothes, the formfitting tunic and pants of patchy strawberry serge.

Some medicinal herbs, a couple of twists of blue lotos, a little fly agaric, and his patchy memory.

We paused to catch our breath, looking down on a church with an openwork belfry of some patchy rose-pink hue, a rude and pretty touch in all the layered white.