(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.
Cobblestone
Definition:
(n.) A large pebble; a rounded stone not too large to be handled; a small boulder; -- used for paving streets and for other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
(2) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(3) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(4) Dehydration of walls seemingly caused the cobblestones to be transformed into two bands which continued to be separated by a channel.
(5) A 61-yr-old man with Burkitt's lymphoma who presented with 6 months of diarrhea was found, at ileoscopy, to have inflammation of the mucosal narrow lumen, deep linear ulcerations, and a "cobblestone" appearance of the terminal ileum.
(6) To the amazement of the CRS the students regrouped and fought back, overturning cars, building barricades and digging up cobblestones to use as ammunition.
(7) A 5-year-old Asian-Indian female presented with bilateral cobblestone-like peripheral lesions, a single area of chorioretinal atrophy, infero-nasal to the disc, in her right eye and a non-recordable single flash ERG.
(8) Despite the fact that these cells retain their normal cobblestone appearance, the collagen profile in each case changes over a period of 12 days in culture following confluence, the changes following distinct patterns.
(9) The cells grow with a cobblestone monolayer morphology, possess angiotensin converting enzyme activity and react with antibodies to Factor VIII antigen.
(10) Changes in the significant radiological signs in Crohn's disease, such as spicula, cobblestone pattern, stenoses and fistulas, provide information on the development of the disease and on the effect of treatment.
(11) Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of extracts prepared from retinol-treated cells which had undergone a remarkable change in shape (from a cobblestone-like to a spindle-like shape) indicated that the retinol-induced morphological change is accompanied by a marked increase of an 80-kDa protein.
(12) Two men aged respectively of 65 and 28 years presented a cobblestone appearance of the gingiva and of the tongue ("pebbly tongue"), which suggested Cowden disease.
(13) Irregular mosaics, intermediate or cobblestone structures were seen in atypical epithelium.
(14) The endothelial cells thus obtained grew to confluence as a cobblestone-like monolayer and expressed von Willebrand factor antigen.
(15) One cell type exhibited cobblestone-like appearance and remained in the center of the islets whereas the other was more loosely arranged and rapidly left the central area by migration below the cobblestone-like cells to the periphery of the islets.
(16) Endothelial cells seeded on this peptide appeared fibroblastic with many extended processes, unlike the normal cobblestone morphology observed on tissue culture plastic.
(17) Histopathologic findings and percentage of eyes affected, in decreasing order of frequency, were myopic configuration of the optic nerve head, 37.7%; posterior staphyloma, 35.4%; degenerative changes of the vitreous, 35.1%; cobblestone degeneration, 14.3%; myopic degeneration of the retina, 11.4%; retinal detachment, 11.4%; retinal pits, holes, or tears, 8.1%; subretinal neovascularization, 5.2%; lattice degeneration, 4.9%; Fuchs spot, 3.2%; and lacquer cracks, 0.6%.
(18) Although rare, these cases provide evidence that IFs in general are not essential to growth in culture, nor are the keratin-containing IFs in particular necessarily responsible for the 'cobblestone' morphology or colony-type growth pattern characteristic of cultured epithelial cells.
(19) Purity of the endothelial cell cultures from each vascular site was assessed by the contact inhibited "cobblestone" monolayer phenotype, by positive immunofluorescence for factor VIII and by angiotensin converting enzyme activity.
(20) The cells lose their usual cobblestone appearance and acquire a fibroblastic, undifferentiated morphology.