Example Sentences

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Instead of fluorescent overhead lighting and plastic chairs, they have patterned wallpaper, wood floors and floral arrangements.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

“It’s about the person being free to choose the life they want to live, rather than a life that past ghosts and traumas have patterned them to live,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

And since the introduction of the project in 2017 in Ketchikan, Ketchikan’s own Rainy Day Quilt Guild have patterned, stuffed, stitched, and distributed 69 “Quilts of Valor” to war veterans in the surrounding area.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 22, 2019

“Lots of ground birds have patterned eggs with spots all over them,” says Norell.

From National Geographic • Sep. 18, 2017

Nearly all of the other nations have patterned their wireless companies after the French.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly