Sentence examples for left a pattern from inspiring English sources

The 2009 pandemic killed about as many people as the seasonal flu tends to kill, but it left a pattern of deaths not typical of seasonal flu.

One wears a robe "tie-dyed to leave a pattern of spots under armor with scarlet lacing".

He puddles paint into the convexities of deformed canvases or fills the cracks between glass tiles and then removes the tiles, leaving a pattern of raised grout lines.

One shows Mr. Henning in a hockey helmet and skates on a frozen lake, doing crossovers that leave a pattern of curlicues on the ice.

The slip covering was sometimes carved away, leaving a pattern in contrasting colour, a technique also used in conjunction with a dark brown glaze.

It's somewhat tempting to note that Huff hit well in 2008 and 2010, leaving a pattern that would suggest a strong 2012.

An instrument that Charlene called a "cheese grater" had been run over the skin graft, leaving a pattern of holes that allow the skin to expand and to cover the wounded area.

This thick, creamy fat encases the kidneys, and gives the pastry a surprising lightness thanks to its high melting point – the shell has already set by the time the suet dissolves, leaving a pattern of tiny air holes in its place.

Rather than a standard single-step machining process with a honing tool — an abrasive that smoothes the cylinder to the required finish — plateau honing uses two stages of grinding to produce a surface that is ultrasmooth yet leaves a pattern of very fine grooves to hold oil.

At the end of the video, the inked-up tire is bolted onto a car — one of those vintage ones still rolling around Havana, having dodged the reign of planned obsolescence — and is driven away, leaving a pattern on the pavement.

It would leave a pattern that would be consistent with an actual hammer's head".