patch together

phrasal verb

patched together; patching together; patches together

: to put (something) together usually in a quick or careless way

She patched a meal together from what was in the cupboard.

They quickly patched together a new plan.

Examples of patch together in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There were some nights this season when Jared Bednar channeled his best Bear Grylls and Angus MacGyver impersonations while trying to patch together an NHL lineup. —Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025

An option remains for Ukraine to patch together individual security agreements with its strongest European allies, such as France and the United Kingdom, to form a non-NATO alliance of protector states. —Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Mar. 2025

Yet even as communism failed to catch on, Moscow refused to jettison its ideological framework and instead tried to shore up its puppet government by patching together the two rival factions of the ruling national communist party. —Jonah Blank, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2011

Our first system was an awkward Rube Goldberg device, patched together from spare bits of defunct Cold War hardware. —IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2011

The stalls are patched together with the materials at hand, like the ever-present rubble. —New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025

And even though they are patched together, there’s a design and even an elegance to them. —Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2025

Residents often have to patch together the FAIR plan’s fire coverage with policies from other carriers to approximate their prior benefits, which can end up being a much costlier package. —Meena Duerson, CNN, 18 Jan. 2025

Might there be some leverage to be had over private investors—leverage that, without a legislative battle, could be used to patch together some form of rent control after all? —Mya Frazier, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024

Rhymes for patch together

• altogether
• aether
• gether
• heather
• leather
• nether
• tether
• weather
• wether
• whether