Use the word pattern in a sentence

Sentence Examples

We call this pattern monasticism.

That pattern is just like that famous candy girl… who’s always talking about how she won’t cry no matter how sad or lonely she is.

And he has one law that will break our pattern.

Why don’t you pattern your life after mine?

A nice pattern of rudeness occupants usually demonstrate.

I began piecing things into a pattern.

Two plain, two purl for the feet, and one and one for the legs I use a much finer pattern altogether

Darn near washed the pattern off.

Methinks the whole pattern of my life has changed since I»ve known you.

Provided we can agree on the color and the pattern, of course.

I have a haberdasher who’s made my ties for a good many years and that particular pattern I seem to recognize.

He wants to pattern his life after yours.

-Well you will notice a repeated pattern in the variant waves, an exact rhythm as though it were a carrier wave on which the true thoughts were being transmitted.

I was merely examining the pattern of the rug… for the decor of the mise-en-sc├¿ne.

This little rose pattern I picked out…

But I convinced her that pattern was better.

Your mother picked out another pattern.

And the other 21 and a half hours, I pattern myself after Dad.

That’s a pretty pattern, that one.

Into the traffic pattern for a landing.

I’m beginning to see the pattern.

It might have its place in the pattern.

It’s a pattern that will go on, I suppose, until we do make the world a decent place to live in.

It’s the same obvious pattern, Laura.

Waldo, I mean to be as kind about this as I know how… but I must tell you-you’re the one who follows the same obvious pattern.

The manufacturers have no more of the pattern.

For stokers and coal passers, we had the scum of the Earth, mongrel dregs from every port in the tropics, dominated by a chief engineer cut to the same pattern.

He follows a pattern and there’s purpose in it.

Good morning, such a good pattern.

It fits the psychological pattern.

No sane person would think of using as a pattern for shore.

Millions of women in these United States pattern their daily lives after that feature.

The main pattern on the puzzle seems to be forming but the pieces don’t fit in.

Observe the occurrence of the pattern Watson?

Obviously but this isn’t part of the same pattern as the others.

And each day, as fresh investigated reports came in from the field FBI officials saw more clearly the pattern of German espionage in the United States.

reflecting the true secret pattern of their own mind and personality.

You said that there was no pattern to a psychotic’s calculations.

It’s the oddest love/hate pattern I’ve ever seen.

The moon, our moon,… .. in the first quarter,… .. and here’s the Earth, our Earth,… .. moving around in its place,… .. part of the pattern, part of the universe.

I’m sure I never interfered with the normal pattern of your life.

The pattern of the dots is really exquisite.

Today, he’s all jade and emeralds and his coat is a most wonderful pattern of pale violet stripes, worked entirely in petit point, just like my grandmother’s footstool!

The intent was humorous, but like many sarcasms, it contained the germ of truth… for the small cities which make up the backbone of the nation… are all in the same pattern.

Oh, I know the pattern, Miss Damien. You’re suffering from the disease of the times…

«Thou cunning’st pattern.»

Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature.

Synonym: arrangement, design, example, illustration, model, paragon, picture, print, prototype, standard. Similar words: matter, latter, battery, scatter, no matter, a matter of, as a matter of fact, attend. Meaning: [‘pætə(r)n]  n. 1. a perceptual structure 2. a customary way of operation or behavior 3. a decorative or artistic work 4. something regarded as a normative example 5. a model considered worthy of imitation 6. something intended as a guide for making something else 7. the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport 8. graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle. v. 1. plan or create according to a model or models 2. form a pattern. 

Sentences ending with pattern

• She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
• Well, one day when I was not around, one of these people came along—it was a she one, this time—and told a tale of the usual pattern. [5]
• But from the very hour that he felt his power over her firmly established, he would begin to remodel her after his own worldly pattern. [6]
• Emerson’s mind was very far from being of the scientific pattern. [6]
• The clock-face on the front of the building is very large and of curious pattern. [5]
• Was it possible that she was really interested in him, perhaps because he was different from the average Englishman and not of a general pattern? [11]
• We got no sight of the countless treasures of art in the Louvre galleries that day, and our only poor little satisfaction was in the reflection that Ferguson sold not a solitary silk dress pattern. [5]
• Either she is possessed and her brain is crazed, or she is of a rarely heroic pattern. [10]
• It was a legislature of the modern pattern. [5]
• The Milesian wet-nurse is only a convenient vessel through which the American infant gets the life-blood of this virgin soil, Sir, that is making man over again, on the sunset pattern! [6]

More example sentences with the word pattern in them

• I can see you now, your tiny finger plunged into the pot of paint, and then carefully printing off the round pattern all over the white linen. [10]
• Your self-made man, whittled into shape with his own jack-knife, deserves more credit, if that is all, than the regular engine-turned article, shaped by the most approved pattern, and French-polished by society and travel. [6]
• Wherefore, the «deal» which had been for some time working into shape in my mind was of a quite different pattern from the Cade-Tyler sort. [5]
• There were moments when the pattern of it appeared to have fallen apart, resolved itself into pieces that refused to fit into each other. [9]
• Upstairs, the bedrooms were quite as unusual, the plumbing of the new pattern, heavy and imposing. [9]
• Before the door was a sleigh of a pattern new to him, with a seat high above the backs of two long-bodied, deep-chested horses, their heads held with difficulty by a little footman with his arms above him. [9]
• All the vast walls are made wholly of these precious stones, worked in, and in and in together in elaborate pattern s and figures, and polished till they glow like great mirrors with the pictured splendors reflected from the dome overhead. [5]
• On any other view, the similarity of pattern between the hand of a man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, the wing of a bat, etc., is utterly inexplicable. [1]
• It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
• The Masons gave us a Missouri country breakfast, in Missourian abundance, and we needed it: hot biscuits; hot ‘wheat bread’ prettily criss-crossed in a lattice pattern on top; hot corn pone; fried chicken; bacon, coffee, eggs, milk, buttermilk, etc. [5]
• The tailor snatched up a pattern and figured on it for a moment. [11]
• I had crowded together the most gorgeous and even some of the most useful and durable materials for my woof, but I had no pattern, and consequently never began to weave. [6]
• Nine couches, arranged three and three in a horseshoe, invited the guests to repose, with their arms of ebony and cushions of dull olive-green brocade, on which a delicate pattern of gold and silver seemed just to have been breathed. [10]
• Mind, he did this while his own hat sat offensively near our noses, on the table—an ancient extinguisher of the «slouch» pattern, limp and shapeless with age, discolored by vicissitudes of the weather, and banded by an equator of bear’s grease that had stewed through. [5]
• The best of them were something of the following pattern, which is too often superseded of late by a more pretentious, but infinitely less pleasing kind of rustic architecture. [6]
• In one of the upper chambers of the old mansion there stood a tall, upright desk of the ancient pattern, with folding doors above and large drawers below. [6]
• He was attired—for the details of his dress forced themselves upon me vividly —in a rough-spun suit of knickerbockers, a colored-shirt having a large and prominent gold stud, red and brown stockings of a diamond pattern, and heavy walking-boots. [9]
• They were of the army pattern, and he allowed that one of them would just suit him. [4]
• Life is like that, Myrtle, one stitch at a time, taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. [6]
• Having satisfied himself that they were of the same pattern and materials, he came to a stop apparently absorbed in meditation. [12]
• Which reminds me that last week I sent down and got Susie a vast pair of shoes of a most villainous pattern, for I discovered that her feet were being twisted and cramped out of shape by a smaller and prettier article. [5]
• He was the symbol or pattern of their virtues and of their weaknesses. [11]
• I am not sure that she will not embroider her ideal better on a plain ground than on one with a brilliant pattern already worked in its texture. [6]
• Their patriotism was strong, their pride in the flag was of the old fashioned pattern, their love of country amounted to idolatry. [5]
• The kirk, which stands near the water, and at a distance shows a pretty wooden spire, is after the pattern of a New England meeting-house. [4]
• The glass and silver was all of a special pattern, and an obsequious waiter handed Honora a menu in a silver frame, with a handle. [9]
• Let’s see,—Helen Darley, —she ‘ll do well enough to fill it up,—why, yes, just the thing, —light brown hair, blue eyes,—won’t my pattern show off well against her? [6]
• He wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standing collar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the ends hanging down. [5]
• Of course, the reference to his wife’s criticism in this is tenderly playful, as always—of a pattern with the severity which he pretends for her in the next. [5]
• And by-and-bye we reached the West End, a collection of hotels of the usual light summer-resort pattern, with broad verandas all around, and the waves of the wide and blue Lake Pontchartrain lapping the thresholds. [5]
• His eyes were playing with the pattern of the carpet; but he slowly raised them to hers, and looked for a moment without speaking. [11]
• You are a pattern witness, Mr. Buckstone. [5]
• Their size and pattern were always the same. [5]
• To repeat his own words, he had crowded together the materials for his work, but he had no pattern, and consequently never began to weave. [6]
• They were an outlandish crew of comedians, dressed after no pattern, save the absurd- clowns, satyrs, kings, soldiers, imps, barbarians. [11]
• Sometimes he copied on paper the involved and delicate pattern left by the ball of the finger, and then vastly enlarged it with a pantograph so that he could examine its web of curving lines with ease and convenience. [5]
• A single band of linen, soiled by the journey, was wound about his throat, and I remember oddly the buttons stuck on his knees and cuffs, and these silk-embroidered in a criss-cross pattern of lighter gray. [9]
• I have heard of an old character, Colonel Jaques, I believe it was, a famous cattle-breeder, who used to say he could breed to pretty much any pattern he wanted to. [6]
• A tail, though not externally visible, is really present in man and the anthropomorphous apes, and is constructed on exactly the same pattern in both. [1]
• They battle here no more by sea, and the commercial marine of Galilee numbers only two small ships, just of a pattern with the little skiffs the disciples knew. [5]
• Then it was necessary to decide upon the pattern and material; the sisters must appear in mourning the next morning at the consecration, and later at the mass for the dead. [10]
• When the ancient mosaics in its walls become damaged, they are repaired but not altered; the grotesque old pattern is preserved. [5]
• The houses are massed in blocks; are austerely plain and dignified; uniform of pattern, with here and there a departure from it with pleasant effect; all are plastered on the outside, and nearly all have long, iron-railed verandas running along the several stories. [5]
• The house they lived in was of the small, gambrel-roofed cottage pattern, after the shape of Esquires’ houses, but after the size of the dwellings of handicraftsmen. [6]
• I have two letters on file; one is a pattern of adulation, the other of impertinence. [6]
• The island called Jacket Pattern is whittled down to a wedge now, and is booked for early destruction. [5]
• If the first is worn and shiny, while the second keeps its pattern and texture, get him to pray for you. [6]
• The preacher’s garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. [6]
• He was dressed in a checked golf costume, and wore a pink shirt of a new pattern. [9]
• Within the fortnight I was getting cigars made for me—on a yet larger pattern. [5]
• I was hypnotized, I think,» he added with a gesture,—«hypnotized, as a man is who never takes his eyes from a pattern. [9]
• Balbilla and her husband gave their corrupt fellow-citizens the example of a worthy, faithful marriage on the old Roman pattern. [10]
• She sat with her worsted pattern held bravely in sight, and her cheek as bright as its liveliest crimson. [6]
• Hugo must have heard just such yarns, and spun them on the pattern. [11]
• One of them has the size and smoothness and plump sphericity of a balloon of the biggest pattern. [5]
• Here, as in Hamilton, the dwellings had Venetian blinds of a very sensible pattern. [5]
• I thought Dan had got the state-room pretty full of rubbish at last, but a while ago his dragoman arrived with a bran new, ghastly tomb-stone of the Oriental pattern, with his name handsomely carved and gilded on it, in Turkish characters. [5]
• His suit was gray and almost new, the trousers perceptibly bagging at the knee, and he had a felt hat, a necktie of the white and flowery pattern, and square-toed «Congress» boots. [9]
• There was more genius in it than in any structure of the kind I have ever seen,—each length being of a special pattern, ramified, reticulated, contorted, as the limbs of the trees had grown. [6]
• It builds a garment cut to the pattern of an Idea, and trusts that Nature will model a material shape to fit it. [6]
• The heavy, expensive furniture was of a pattern new to me; and on the mantel were three or four photographs of ladies in the alluring costume of the musical stage, in which Tom evinced a particular interest. [9]
• Perhaps two railway freight cars of the largest pattern, placed end to end, might better represent their size. [5]
• They fitted well enough, though a trifle loosely, and they were just a shade loud as to pattern. [5]
• Well, I’ve seen enough of ’em to know it don’t always take a large pattern of a man to do a large business. [8]
• Fulkerson led him down one block and half across another to the steps of a small dwelling-house, transformed, like many others, into a restaurant of the Latin ideal, with little or no structural change from the pattern of the lower middle-class New York home. [8]
• A real woman does a great many things without knowing why she does them; but these pattern machines mix up their intellects with everything they do, just like men. [6]
• It may well compare with others of the finest memorial poems in the language,—with Shelley’s «Adonais,» and Matthew Arnold’s «Thyrsis,» leaving out of view Tennyson’s «In Memoriam» as of wider scope and larger pattern. [6]
• After he had chosen a coat with a small pattern and his feet had been thrust into the little red shoes with the high heels, imported by him from France, he sent for a hackney-chaise. [9]
• She wore a checkered dress, of a curious pattern, and a camel’s-hair scarf twisted a little fantastically about her. [6]
• We took the cars and came up here to ancient Cairo, which is an Oriental city and of the completest pattern. [5]
• The first fashionable call she received from a member of the ancient nobility, otherwise the Antiques, was of a pattern with all she received from that limb of the aristocracy afterward. [5]
• In the ladies’ cabin a pink and white Wilton carpet, as soft as mush, and glorified with a ravishing pattern of gigantic flowers. [5]
• I sent the bullets round them as pretty as the pattern of a milliner. [11]
• The floor was bare, save for a few mats, and in the corner was a massive escritoire of mahogany with carved feet, and there were tables and chairs of a like pattern. [9]
• As he was at this time he might be taken for the very pattern of a stalwart and upright German mastercraftsman; nay, nor would a knight’s harness of mail have ill-beseemed him. [10]
• All their clothes are of one pattern. [6]
• I hate repeating and copying as much as I like inventing and making new things, and Heri can work from a pattern just as well as I can. [10]
• You can’t make a village or a parish or a family think alike, yet you suppose that you can make a world pinch its beliefs or pad them to a single pattern! [6]
• It was of a pattern which does not vary, and so it is familiar to us all. [5]
• The first was a good pattern of the real old-fashioned New England meeting-house. [6]
• This, like the «mansion-house,» is copied from an old English pattern. [6]

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