Use "pates" in a sentence

1. Whilst I ate I pondered what the slide on the watch was so I reopened the rear covers and checked the where abouts it was positioned only to discover one of the half pates covered any chance of investigation

2. Here old ladies with fluffy white hair and silly but kindly grins sat beside old men with shining pates and tufts of grey above their ears; the seats were littered with thermos flasks, plastic sandwich boxes and library books

3. How can we tramping barefoot into battle? How can we tolerate them with their champagnes and endure these scavengers in our midst with their varnished boots when our boys are their pates of Strasbourg when our soldiers are shivering about their camp fires and gnawing moldy bacon? I call upon every loyal Confederate to cast them out