When you don't fit the nice, neat, tidy pattern laid down by God knows who.
Put the pieces together in neat patterns and see the whole picture?
That had been no part of this neat pattern.
They dislike those who will not fit into their neat patterns.
Inside small printed letters made a neat pattern but nothing more.
The bricks were of two sorts, light and dark gray, alternating in a neat pattern.
Besides, whoever heard of stars arranged in such a neat pattern?
Seven bullet holes formed a neat pattern almost exactly at waist level.
One has to accept that you can't explain everything in neat little patterns.
She sighed, pushed herself back from the window, and went to sit before the fireplace with its neat pattern of wood waiting for a light.