Sentence examples for a patchy pattern from inspiring English sources

Rapes are concentrated in the inner city areas but follow a patchy pattern in some parts of the periphery.

In the degraded photograph, streaks of color run down the right side of Assange's face in a patchy pattern; even in print, he appears to be looking through a screen.

Microliths were common worldwide by the mid-Holocene epoch, but have a patchy pattern of first appearance that is rarely earlier than 40,000 years ago9,10, and were thought to appear briefly between 65,000 and 60,000 years ago in South Africa and then disappear.

The ΔTEC map in Fig. 2 shows that there coexisted two types of TEC perturbations; a patchy pattern of TEC enhancement was noted at Kokubunji, which can be distinguished from the concentric pattern.

In vivo, however, we observed a patchy pattern of distribution of hMSC-scFvEGFRvIII in the tumor.

Macroscopic views of adult intestine revealed a patchy pattern of expression of the GFP transgene (Figure 4B and C).

As shown by Fig. 6d, simultaneous labelling by the three tracers indeed covered ∼70% of this surface, still with a predominantly patchy pattern arguing against a mere coalescence and indicating instead complementarity as in a jigsaw puzzle.

Some tumors showed a typical ribbon-like pattern, others a more patchy pattern[ 18].

In contrast, the correlogram for transect 2 showed a more patchy pattern with weak autocorrelations at the lowest distance class (I = 0.12, p = 0.04) and again at 120 m (I = 0.13, p = 0.18), suggesting that transect 2 ran through two aggregations of dead O. unilateralis infected ants approximately 100 m apart.

Importantly, while normal intestinal renewal follows a random, patchy pattern of tissue replenishment (e.g. Fig 3A), escargot loss or the ectopic expression of the mir-8 microRNA resulted in a homogeneous, salt-and-pepper distribution of newly differentiated cells (Fig 3B and C).

Expression of Cd44 was much more widespread in tumours than Bmi1 and Msi1 and was found in the same cell populations as Lgr5 as well as additional areas, staining virtually all cells in 1322T tumours but with a more patchy pattern in Min tumours (p=0.0212).