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Example sentences for "patterned"

Lexicographically close words:
patterer; patterers; pattering; pattern; patterne; patterning; patterns; patterollers; patterrollers; patters
  1. It was patterned on Graeco-Roman models and everything was done to make it architecturally impressive.

  2. The description of disorganized society which is here reflected is patterned on conditions which existed in Egypt before 2000 B.

  3. It was a severe apartment, commanding a view of mews, and had a parquet-patterned linoleum on the floor, and a washable paper of a popular ecclesiastical design suggestive of a ranunculus with its hands in its pockets.

  4. His sanction of ceremonies, patterned after pagan rites, was doubtless of far-reaching effect.

  5. Very early in its history, the Church manifested a tendency to supplant the pristine simplicity of its worship by elaborate ceremonies, patterned after Judaistic ritual and heathen idolatries.

  6. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown.

  7. How impressed Tommy is when at his heel All his baggage wagons wheel About the patterned carpet, and Moving up his heavy guns He sees them glow with diamond suns Flashing all along each barrel.

  8. And I walked into the garden, Up and down the patterned paths, In my stiff, correct brocade.

  9. In Summer and in Winter I shall walk Up and down The patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown.

  10. The divan was of flesh-coloured satin, and the carpet as delicately wrought and patterned as a cachemire shawl.

  11. Soon they were installed in a bright little room with French prints on the walls, a gay old-fashioned wall paper and patterned curtains.

  12. They were bare-footed, wearing knee pants buttoned to calico waists, these being patterned with small horseshoes which the twins had been told by their father would bring them good luck.

  13. And lastly, several of the undersigned have become acquainted with the method which Mr. von Osten used, which has little in common with methods of training, and is patterned after the instruction given in the elementary schools.

  14. It will be seen that Hans responded to me from the very beginning, undoubtedly because I had had the opportunity of watching Mr. von Osten and Mr. Schillings and had thus patterned my behavior after theirs.

  15. His head was whirling, a hundred plans and speculations filled his mind, and through these Mrs Hastings' chatter of forebodings and the lawyer's patterned utterance hardly found their way.

  16. The walls and ceiling were smoothly covered with a neutral-tinted silk, patterned in dim figures; and from a fluted pillar of exceeding lightness an enormous candelabrum shed clear radiance upon the objects in the room.

  17. On the floor and on the divans were spread strange skins, some marked like peacocks, some patterned like feathers and like seaweed, all in a soft fur that was like silk.

  18. From this very scant evidence, it seems probable that the small woods canoes were patterned on the river canoe in all respects but the profile of the ends.

  19. It would be reasonable to expect that as building increased in the west, local modifications would be patterned on canoes from around the building post, but that the basic model would remain.

  20. She raised her willow-patterned tea-cup; Soames did the same.

  21. In answer to those words, forced from him by that which is deeper than habit, Mrs. Pendyce's hand slipped from his arm and rested on the shiny chintz covering of the sofa, patterned with green and crimson.

  22. The moonbeams had stolen in to the beech clump, frosting the boles and boughs, casting a fine ghostly grey over the shadow-patterned beech-mast.

  23. A sound as of some monster breathing guided him, till, from a steep empty street he came in sight of a surging crowd, spread over the town square, like a dark carpet patterned by splashes of lamplight.

  24. Children's dress was patterned identically after that of their elders and, as may be imagined, very little freedom of movement was afforded.

  25. The antecedent of the present-day coat worn by men was introduced in England by Charles II, having been patterned after a Persian coat brought to his attention.

  26. The small buildings within, patterned after the simple homes of the peasantry in England, were built of available material.

  27. Many salons which were all more or less patterned after that of Rambouillet sprang into existence.

  28. Inside this fur collar the Major wore a shawl-patterned scarf of all the colours in the prismatic scale, across which his nose lacked its usual brilliancy of hue by force of contrast.

  29. The defect in that kind of table was called "lignum," which denoted a dull, log colour, with stains and flaws and an indistinctly patterned grain.

  30. From the time of Walton and before that, wet flies have been patterned after natural flies.

  31. And is not the white miller artificial fly patterned after the living white miller fly?

  32. They were couched in legal parlance and cushioned on expensive, patterned vellum.

  33. Patterned after the military, it was directed by, and key positions held by former military men.

  34. It was old, thickly patterned with stains, but it contained not a single sheet of paper.

  35. His shirt and coat were soaked with it, in a long red stripe, and a dark pool had formed in a vague heart-shape on the patterned carpet.

  36. But the mole cricket really seems to have been patterned on the mole; either that, or both the four-legged and the six-legged moles were patterned after something else.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patterned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.