In other words, children learn best by example and from patterns of behavior within the family.

But that guy with a hook was a change from the pattern.

But she was cut from the same pattern as her employer.

She'd learned to figure the time from the pattern of the torture.

"Yeah, and she even used some of the moves from the pattern!"

She pulled back from their old pattern, and asked, "What do you want?"

It was then that he saw the words emerging from the pattern.

Your own world, too, was once like this, though it has been drifting from the pattern for a long time now.

I gave up and withdrew my attention from the pattern in the tank.

She had an orange and green vest made from the same pattern.