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How to use stripe in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Stripe means a long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions. Example: “Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.”

Examples of stripe by meaning

nounDistinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort.

  • persons of the same political stripe
  • a tyrant of a very different stripe

verbTo lash with a whip or strap.

  • Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.2012, Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States, →ISBN

More sentences with stripe

  • Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.From the entry busy
  • The flag of France has three vertical stripes.From the entry flag
  • Tompot blennies are distinguished by a pair of lappets above the eyes and dark stripes along the body.From the entry lappet
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:tiger stripe.From the entry tiger stripe
  • It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.From the entry toss-up
  • Echocardiography revealed severe eccentric mitral regurgitation with multiple high-intensity signals (tiger stripes) on continuous wave (CW) Doppler.2022, Najeeb Ullah Sofi, Santosh Kumar Sinha, Mohit Sachan, Ramesh Thakur, “Tiger stripes in carditis of rheumatic origin”, in Heart…. From the entry tiger stripe
  • It's black with a sporty pattern of lilac stripes down the sides.2021, Nina Mingya Powles, Small Bodies of Water. From the entry sporty
  • Her belly feathers were all ruffled, unlike the straight black waiscoat stripe of her unsitting mate.2021, Mike Tomkies, A Last Wild Place: Seasons in the Wilderness. From the entry unsitting
  • The typical danfo is a VW transporter bus, painted in cadmium yellow with two black stripes.2017, Arnd Schneider, Alternative Art and Anthropology: Global Encounters, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry danfo
  • Actually, it was a black wet suit with a red stripe.2013, Medb Ruane, quoting Ailbhe Smyth, “Interview with Ailbhe Smyth”, in Noreen Giffney, Margrit Shildrick, editors, Theory on the Edge…. From the entry pride
  • “Nobody put up stripes in our outfit, that was for base blodgers,” one man remembered.2012, David Hackett Fischer, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies. From the entry blodger
  • He even still wore the stripe of blue paint Nikki had tagged his face with.2012, Richard Castle [pseudonym; Tom Straw], chapter 19, in Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat; 4), →ISBN, pages 288–289. From the entry jailwear
  • Stripes of black and brown ride its ribs like a zebra’s.2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 18. From the entry brindle
  • Now we’re going to sew the racer stripes together at the side seams.2011 June 8, Dana, “Retro Racer Shorts”, in Made Everyday. From the entry racer stripe
  • We were almost invisible in our tiger stripes and ghillie suits.2010, Brian Easton, Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter, page 22. From the entry gomer
  • The French Riviera has long been a favorite playland for dodgy characters of all stripes.2007 January 22, Craig S. Smith, “For Sale: Hussein’s Riviera Villa”, in New York Times. From the entry playland
  • I could not bewish that the stars and stripes were wavering from its top.2006, Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico - Page 130. From the entry bewish
  • Porto are playing from right to left in blue and white stripes, blue shorts and blue socks.2003 May 21, Barry Glendenning "Minute-by-minute: Celtic 2 - 3 FC Porto (AET)" The Guardian (London). From the entry hoop
  • The boy's camisia was probably his “dress-up” wear; the vertical stripe appears on matching stockings.2003, Tom Tierney, Historic Costume: From Ancient Times to the Renaissance, page 58. From the entry camisia
  • Later, on the motorway, a car with go-faster stripes and spoilers overtakes us, horn blaring.1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World. From the entry go-faster stripe
  • Many checkers have been upbraided by lordly writers and editors and big shots of all stripes.1993 June 25, Richard Sacks, “Opinion: At The New Yorker, They Take Their Fact Checking Seriously”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Oct 2012. From the entry come with the territory
  • The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé.1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry jaspé
  • You may weave those structures in warpwise stripes but not create the checkerboard.1990, Sharon Alderman, A Handweaver's Notebook, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry warpwise
  • Detailed floral stripe on sofas, sleepers and loveseats with correlating provincial print on double ruffle trim.1980, Montgomery Ward, “‘Country Charm’ slipcovers and all the important accessories”, in Fall & Winter ’80, Chicago, Ill., →OCLC, page…. From the entry sleeper
  • I had no gods to bother me, and my friends were of the same stripe.1922, Irving Bacheller, chapter 8, in In the Days of Poor Richard. From the entry of the same stripe
  • Just now he was wearing a suit of maple-syrup brown with faint but incontrovertible purple stripes.1921 November 23, Leonard Hatch, “My Heart Leaps Up”, in The Outlook. From the entry incontrovertible
  • The frontal stripe is black, the cheeks and margins of the orbits silvery-white.1915, O. A. Johannsen, William A. Riley, Handbook of Medical Entomology. From the entry arista
  • The men in stripes worked a shorter day than I at my machine.1913, Jack London, chapter 7, in John Barleycorn, New York: Century, page 64. From the entry abubble
  • Although Tina used a slightly heavier yarn for the stripes in Towel 3, she was still able to achieve 23 ppi.2026, Tina Glassenbury, “Hawk Moth Dish Towels”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 56. From the entry ppi
  • Could the state of the world, like the stripes on a barbershop pole, keep sinking lower and lower?2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 3: Counter-Enlightenments”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress…. From the entry crisis
  • And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."2015, Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves. From the entry mag
  • The gastric cavity of the medusae-bearing reproductive polyp lacks the radially symmetric intertaeniolar stripes of the feeding polyp (Fig 18D ).2015 September 12, “Nutrient Distribution and Absorption in the Colonial Hydroid Podocoryna carnea Is Sequentially Diffusive and…. From the entry intertaeniolar
  • The eye-stripe is exactly that: a stripe through the eye.2014, Keith Vinicombe, “Topographical Tips”, in The Helm Guide to Bird Identification: An In-depth Look at Confusion Species, London…. From the entry eyestripe
  • UHV and 77 K operation should give rise to insanely good instrumental stability and provide superextraordinarily clear images of stripes.2013 November 18, Professor Moriarty, “The Villain’s New Stripes”, in fakeraphazlab.wordpress.com, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2021. From the entry superextraordinarily
  • Circle: up spin, christcross: down spin, and line: charge stripe.2013, S. Sugai, Y. Takayanagi, N. Hayamizu, T. Muroi, R. Shiozaki, J. Nohara, K. Takenaka, K. Okazaki, Superconducting pairing and the…. From the entry christcross
  • Each zebra has a different set of stripes.2012, Alex Kuskowski, Zeal of Zebras: Animal Groups on an African Safari, →ISBN, page 8. From the entry zeal
  • The Zebra moray is chocolate black with vertical white stripes.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72. From the entry vertical

Meaning of stripe

  1. noun A long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.
  2. noun A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
  3. noun The badge worn by certain officers in the military or other forces.

Full definition of stripe

Questions about stripe in a sentence

How do you use stripe in a sentence?
Stripe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.”
What is a short sentence with stripe?
“persons of the same political stripe”
What does stripe mean?
Stripe means a long region of a single colour in a repeating pattern of similar regions.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stripe (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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