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Past tense of streak

regular verb

The past tense of streak is streaked. The past participle is also streaked.

Forms of streak

Base form (V1)streak /stɹiːk/
Past tense (V2)streaked
Past participle (V3)streaked
Present participlestreaking
Third person singularstreaks

Streaked in a sentence

  • Up and over the back fence and streaked for the common."1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82
  • But when we streaked through Doncaster at all but a mile-a-minute, with a miraculously clear road, in no more than 37 min. 18 sec. from the York start, I began to sit up and take notice.1949 November and December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 365
  • The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.From the entry sound
  • The meteor streaked across the sky.From the entry across
  • This lonely stretch of California, forgotten shoreline, sand streaked with black.2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 246. From the entry Pismo Beach

Meaning of streak

  1. noun An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion.
  2. noun A band, line or stripe.
  3. noun A continuous series of like events.

Full definition of streak

Questions about the past tense of streak

What is the past tense of streak?
The past tense of streak is streaked.
What is the past participle of streak?
The past participle of streak is streaked.
Is streak a regular or irregular verb?
Streak is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: streak (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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