patch up

How To Use patch up In A Sentence

• I think you ought to patch up the rip in your pants.
• We'll have to patch up the hole in the roof.
• She was ordered off court to patch up the injured child and found a first aid box containing iodine.
• They were to meet in a restaurant and pose as two friends trying to patch up some hard times.
• But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life.
• She has gone on holiday with her husband to try to patch up their marriage.
• I think you ought to patch up the hole in your sock.
• It is a measure of the president's continued pulling power that the Europeans, who have seemingly grudged every extra pair of boots the NATO secretary general has persuaded them to dispatch up until now, are to stump up around 7,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan alongside the 30,000 more committed by a president who has now more than doubled the U.S. contingent there. How is Obama being viewed in Europe?
• They have tried to patch up their differences.
• We'll have to patch up the hole in the roof.