They nosed about in aimless patterns for a while, then limped away.

Piggy made an aimless little pattern in the sand with his fingers.

I walked around the parking lot in aimless patterns.

He took a piece of blackened claw and began to scrawl aimless patterns in the dirt.

She cast a look toward the glass where the tc'a dipped and wove aimless patterns.

Liz stopped, began drawing aimless patterns in the dust with the tip of her boot.

Klair kept moving in an aimless pattern and they followed.

They were swimming together in what appeared to be an aimless pattern.

He began drawing aimless patterns in the mud with the toe of one boot.

And as in so many modernist works, an apparently aimless pattern masks a deeper, irrational meaning.