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 participle | streaking |
| Third person singular | streaks |
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
- noun An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion.
- noun A band, line or stripe.
- noun A continuous series of like events.
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.
Source and license
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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