Example Sentences

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Will pressed his face harder against the grate, until he was sure the metal zigzags were patterning his nose.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

They never sat down, but followed along, knitting, knitting, as though they were patterning the fates of men.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow