What is "patterned"

Usage examples of "patterned".

AD the Oltenians wore personal touches on their uniforms, and the fatigues of the man at the console were patterned with a loose gray mesh in which he could have passed at a distance for a Molt warrior.

The ceiling, scorched and blackened though it was, still showed traces of elaborate plasterwork not to be matched even by the ornate ceilings down below, and the fireplace was a masterpiece of variously patterned marbles, ugly in its grandeur, but impressively conceived and executed.

But his hands rested on patterned arabesques, and he concentrated on the portation codes.

Ahead of him somewhere, a thousand rasping ultra-diamond teeth, patterned on the radulae of a snail, had been chewing through the metal core of the rock, sucking the debris into the sorter and then into the storage bay for refining on the main ship.

To clear out the quartz would disrupt patterned energies, with the recoiling effects of unsanctioned release rewritten in her hapless flesh.

She wore only a shoulderless sheath of brightly patterned cloth that hung to her knees.

The undermost was patterned with Terran roses which seemed to climb through a dense fog of overlying fabric.

That plate, Gervase, is a Delft blue patterned plate, probably made in Lowestoft at the end of the seventeenth century and will fetch, according to the valuer, over six hundred pounds at auction.

Margaret had wondered if the placement was some sort of message laid down by the Klikiss, or an integrated circuit patterned along the granite walls, but analysis showed that the crystals had grown long after the devastating attack vitrified the stone.

Beneath the wellcut coat he wore a snowy white linen shirt and an elegantly made blue and white patterned waistcoat.

Although Rochelle adapted English idioms to Agro, the language itself followed a form patterned after languages of Latin derivation.

On the little table-cloths patterned with small red checks they were setting out the long-stemmed colored glasses used for Alsatian wine.

When Andromeda loomed above him, her sun-warmed hair patterned with magical flowers, when she tickled both sets of ribs and kissed his hot belly, do you think the little puppy was anything but definitively flattened with joy?

The Batcher threw her one half-panicked gray glance before obediently going forward to make her bow, so deep it looked like she was trying to sink into the rock floor beneath the patterned rug.

It was printed over one broad, high cheekbone with a blackwork tattoo fine as engraving, an abstract patterned curl.