Sentence examples for tracing the pattern from inspiring English sources
"But maps survive," the two write, "tracing the pattern of the Dutch streets that were themselves laid down on ancient Indian trails that wound through woods and bogs that are now nearly impossible to conjure.
Here, the kitchen is a place of refuge – where housewives defeated by the frustrations of commuter-belt life and their husbands' philandering go to drink, brood on what might have been and say out loud (albeit to themselves) unsayable truths while "tracing the pattern of the Formica tabletop".
If you have access to a lightbox this can be incredibly helpful for tracing the pattern onto the glass.
Tracing the patterns of these influences is the job of the historical lexicographer.
By tracing the patterns, the team deduced that the two main planets orbit in the same plane and contain 4.3 and 3.9 times the mass of Earth.
By tracing the patterns of this scattering, the RHESSI team found that the gamma rays were extremely polarized, or aligned with their electric fields in a preferred direction.
"I dunno," he said, reaching up to trace the pattern with his fingers.
In the first, slow-moving, act Harris traces the pattern of island life on the brink of cataclysm.
"Let us trace the pattern, however disconnected in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness".
Superficially, the telecommunications industry's story of many rivals borrowing heavily and outspending one another to create far more capacity than the market could support does seem to trace the pattern of the railroad barons of the late 19th century.
Chenayya stared at the water bowl; he noticed how its sides were lobed to make them look like lotus petals, and how the artisan had even traced the pattern of a trellis around the bottom of the bowl.
