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How to use streaked in a sentence

27 example sentences · adjective

Streaked means bearing streaks. Example: “The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.”

More sentences with streaked

  • 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
  • Yesterday's snow collected in black sootening clumps, some streaked yellow by wanton dogs.2016, Paul Quintanilla, Jamie Budlow. From the entry sooten
  • Bird droppings, smeared by the strokes of rain and dried by the heat, streaked its sides.2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book 1, Chapter 5, p. 56. From the entry smear
  • The species bears creamy white flowers with a yellow base and tepals often streaked with rose-pink.2001, Barbara W. Ellis, Taylor's Guide to Bulbs, page 400. From the entry tepal
  • It turned over at the top and streaked down, raining redeye on Anvil's twitching form.c. 1995, L. Ron Hubbard, Under the Diehard Brand. From the entry unspilling
  • Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132. From the entry youth-on-age
  • 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. From the entry streak
  • By imperfect, we mean a streaked gore or probably a misweave here and there.1909, William Borsodi, Advertising Cyclopedia of Selling Phrases, page 1075. From the entry misweave
  • The sun streaked past my passenger window.2020, Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN. From the entry slammed
  • There are rock pipits here too, nervy little creatures streaked brown with a touch of olive green on the chest.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 46. From the entry rock pipit
  • Jenson Button's just streaked past in a white tranny.2014, Sally Wainwright, 1:49 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Kirsten McAskill (Sophie Rundle). From the entry tranny
  • His coal hair streaked through the gushing of freezing air and the base of the silk robe fluttered splendidly.2010, Rhett C. Bruno, Isinda: Fallen Dagger, Tate Publishing, →ISBN, page 126. From the entry coal
  • Coated with black crumbs and custard, the zac streaked out of his mouth like a dum-dum and ricocheted off a tureen.1980, Clive James, Unreliable Memoirs, Picador, published 1981, page 13. From the entry zac
  • The approved variety of chalcitis is honey-coloured, and streaked with fine veins and is friable and not stony.1966 June 1, Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology, BRILL, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry sori
  • Under the sticks was dimness, streaked and blurred with sunlight.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19. From the entry cutwater
  • Twelve robot spaceboats emerged from the midst of the retreating armada and streaked toward the glowing bubble, which was expanding more rapidly.1996, Julian May, Magnificat, London: Pan Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 551. From the entry spaceboat
  • Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10. From the entry spoor
  • When my turn came for the bath, I asked if I might swill out the tub, which was streaked with dirt, before using it.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry swill
  • It was a hot night, and the dust of Limpet's fanlight covered him like a garment, and streaked his countenance like a coal-heaver's.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 91. From the entry coalheaver
  • It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.1901, E. L. Morris, The Child's Eden, page 16. From the entry lightning
  • A loopful from the highest dilution streaked on nutrient agar plates, that did not show any bacterial growth after overnight incubation, was taken as minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC).2014 December 16, Afsaneh Noormandi, Fatemeh Dabaghzadeh, “Effects of green tea on Escherichia coli as a uropathogen”, in Journal of…. From the entry loopful
  • Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve. From the entry friable
  • But a clammy feeling soon dampened his enthusiasm, and he looked down to find his fine white suit streaked with violet where the ianthinas had discharged their ink.1949, Ray Smith Bassler, Shelled creatures and geological history. From the entry ianthina
  • But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name). From the entry cradlesome
  • His rumpled clothes were streaked with soot from the day-coach of the Richmond train that could be heard now, bell aclang, grinding away from the southbound side of the depot.1953, May Davies Martenet, Taw Jameson, Alfred A. Knopf, page 143. From the entry aclang

Meaning of streaked

  1. adjective Bearing streaks.
  2. adjective Marred with streaks.
  3. adjective Uncomfortable; out of sorts.

Full definition of streaked

Questions about streaked in a sentence

How do you use streaked in a sentence?
Streaked is used as an adjective. For example: “The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive.”
What is a short sentence with streaked?
“The meteor streaked across the sky.”
What does streaked mean?
Streaked means bearing streaks.

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