PATTERN in a Sentence
Learn PATTERN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
160 example sentences for PATTERN, such as:
1. The murders all seem to follow a pattern.
2. His behavior fits a pattern of violent acts.
3. She pricked out the design from the pattern.
4. She bought a dress pattern and some material.
5. The disease follows a highly predictable pattern.
2. His behavior fits a pattern of violent acts.
3. She pricked out the design from the pattern.
4. She bought a dress pattern and some material.
5. The disease follows a highly predictable pattern.
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Meanings and Examples of PATTERN
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pattern
n. a model considered worthy of imitation
n. something regarded as a normative example
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf; a criss-cross of lines making no pattern.
2 It was a fine dry night; frost in the air; the streets as clean as a ballroom floor; the lamps, unshaken, by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light and shadow.
3 He'll be a great man himself, and will make you one too, if you take pattern by him.
4 The live adder regarded the assembled group with a sinister look in its small black eye, and the beautiful brown and jet pattern on its back seemed to intensify with indignation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
5 The other, who was secured in a similar fashion, was a tall man in the last stage of emaciation, with several strips of sticking-plaster arranged in a grotesque pattern over his face.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
Context Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
6 The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust.
7 I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
8 It was of a pattern which does not vary, and so it is familiar to us all.
9 "We shall be much obliged to you," said the impostors, and then they named the different colors and described the pattern of the pretended stuff.
10 Large drops of perspiration were now standing on his brow, while the garments that hung about him were so ragged that one could only guess at the pattern upon which they had originally been fashioned.
11 These were pistols of an especial pattern, which Monte Cristo had had made for target practice in his own room.
12 We came of the same kind of people, we were raised in the same pattern, brought up to think the same things.
13 Hold; while Prometheus is about it, I'll order a complete man after a desirable pattern.
14 He would write for a while, then sit idle, his clenched fist lying on the table, his eyes following the pattern of the oilcloth.
15 He was feeling out the pattern that lay all ready-made on the big and little keys.
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1 Economic activity often follows a cyclical pattern.
2 A pattern is beginning to emerge from our analysis of the accident data.
3 The more you fight something, the more anxious you become ---the more you're involved in a bad pattern, the more difficult it is to escape.
4 The boy's behavior deviates from the usual pattern.
5 His behavior fits a pattern of violent acts.
6 These fish are highly variable in color and pattern.
7 Traditional quilts combine the discipline of pattern with the artistic freedom to choose color and scale.
8 She pricked out the design from the pattern.
9 The child showed a normal pattern of development.
10 The disease follows a highly predictable pattern.
11 You measure yourself, enter measurements and the computer will print out the pattern.
12 The murders all seem to follow a pattern.
13 She bought a dress pattern and some material.
14 This weather pattern of the southern hemisphere has no parallel in the north.
15 The recent pattern of weather deviates from the norm for this time of year.