PATTERNS in a Sentence

Learn PATTERNS 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 PATTERNS, such as:
1. Weather patterns have changed in recent years.
2. A wide range of colours and patterns are available.
3. There is a wide variety of patterns to choose from.
4. Look what pretty patterns Jack Frost has painted on the windows.
5. I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PATTERNS
pattern
 n.  a model considered worthy of imitation
 n.  something regarded as a normative example
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Here the snow was so pure that the tiny tracks of wood-animals had left on it intricate lace-like patterns, and the bluish cones caught in its surface stood out like ornaments of bronze.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  "Scoot up to the attic and get my box of dress patterns, Mammy," she cried, giving her a slight shove.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this, again, was surrounded by turf, smooth as green velvet, while a carriage-drive enclosed the whole.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  The bedstead, chairs, and lounges, were of bamboo, wrought in peculiarly graceful and fanciful patterns.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
5  And accordingly he praised the stuff he could not see, and declared that he was delighted with both colors and patterns.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES
6  Under the holy pictures stood a table painted in patterns, a bench, and two chairs.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 25
7  In its filthy shops are exposed for sale huge bunches of second-hand silk handkerchiefs, of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pick-pockets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV
9  The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf; a criss-cross of lines making no pattern.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
10  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.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
11  He'll be a great man himself, and will make you one too, if you take pattern by him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  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
13  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
14  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.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  We are now more able to predict future patterns of climate change.
2  A wide range of colours and patterns are available.
3  There is a wide variety of patterns to choose from.
4  The rock drawings depict a variety of stylized human, bird and mythological figures and patterns.
5  Social class is a major determinant of consumer spending patterns.
6  Pollution could cause changes to weather patterns on a global scale.
7  Analysis isolates possible patterns of error which indicate underlying causes.
8  Look what pretty patterns Jack Frost has painted on the windows.
9  Weather patterns have changed in recent years.
10  Political cultures to refer to those in which there are significant proportions of both the simpler and more complex patterns of orientations.
11  They relate to universally accepted behaviour patterns - salutations, manners, dress, etc.
12  Not all patterns and marks seen on aerial photographs represent archaeological sites.
13  When you have both filled in your patterns, you may want to share these with each other.
14  Specific patterns of interaction in the family have been observed.
15  Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage.