People the world over made faces using the same basic patterns of muscle contraction, starting from infancy. (discovermagazine.com)
Then we discovered that different varieties of the honeybee use the same basic patterns in slightly different ways; that they speak different dialects, as it were. (scientificamerican.com)
Since I recently made another sweater from the same type of yarn, I could use the same basic pattern for the sleeves and the body. (tallgirlsfashion.no)