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• Most tiger moths have broad, striped (hence the name) or spotted wings.From the entry tiger moth
• Oplegnathus fasciatus is the striped beakfish; Oplegnathus insignis is the Pacific beakfish.From the entry beakfish
• He wore a blue striped nightshirt and bedroom slippers.From the entry nightshirt
• The trades of barbering and surgery have long been linked, as evidenced by the barber's red and white striped pole.From the entry barbering
• Unlike other octopus species, which are normally solitary, the larger Pacific striped octopus has been reported as forming groups of up to 40 individuals.From the entry larger Pacific striped octopus
• Like brightly striped caterpillars and spiders, the flamboyant cuttlefish is warning potential predators of its toxic nature.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry flamboyant cuttlefish
• He was wearing hipster glasses, jeans, a red-and-white striped shirt, and red sneakers.2014, Heather Vogel Frederick, Absolutely Truly, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry hipster glasses
• “Blues are too oily,” he says, complaining about the absence of striped bass this year.2014, William Powers, New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City, →ISBN, page 186. From the entry surf cast
• Another snakebark maple grown for its striped bark, 'White Tigress', is probably a hybrid of this species.2014, Allen J. Coombes, The Book of Leaves: A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees. From the entry snakebark maple
• Convicts in striped prisonwear collect trash by the roadside, watched over by their guards.2014, Roger Frankham, “USA”, in Bite Size World: Eating My Way Around the Planet, Cirencester: Mereo, →ISBN, part three (North America)…. From the entry prisonwear
• We've got to do this, she thought as she fingered the kitten's striped fur.2013, Deborah Bedford, Blessing, →ISBN, page 142. From the entry nose around
• He looked a right Charlie in those tails and striped trousers.2009, Ruth Rendell, The Best Man To Die, page 26. From the entry charlie
• Put on your long socks, Sissy, and you both can wear your striped unionalls too.2008, Jane Lowrey-Christian, Budgie and Sissy's Adventure: Growing up in North Missouri, page 67. From the entry unionall
• In Maolin, outside Kaohsiung, millions of striped blue crow butterflies create a purplish haze in the forests.2006, David C. King, Taiwan (Enchantment of the World), Children's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43. From the entry Maolin
• Striped volumes of mirrored plexes can survive failure of up to half of their disks.2002, Paul Massiglia, Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, page 60. From the entry plex
• I had eyes only for the striped cowfish as it slowly moved.2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 311. From the entry striped cowfish
• One particularly snazzy outfit consisted of vertically striped pants paired with a horizontally striped and sequined top.2000 September 23, Alev Aktar, “Tailor made goes: Fashion week closes with Calvin [Klein], Donna [Karan] and Vera [Wang]”, in New York…. From the entry snazzy
• A few species such as bat, shrew, striped hamster and muskrat are found only in North Korea.1985, H. Edward Kim, “Land and People”, in Facts about Korea, 18th Revised edition, Seoul: Hollym Corporation, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry North Korea
• At his side, Amuta and a steatopygous twelve-year-old in a striped shift.1981, T[homas] Coraghessan Boyle, “Niger Redux”, in Water Music, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, →ISBN; republished London: Granta Books…. From the entry steatopygous
• She was wearing a black and white striped slack-suit with flared bottoms.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 16. From the entry flared
• S., correct in morning coat, wing collar and striped sponge-bag pants, last week appeared before the U.1939, Time, page 14. From the entry sponge-bag pants
• A civet, a little striped skunk, very similar to the phoby-cat of the Southwest.[1927, V. Randolph, “More Words from the Ozarks”, in Dialect Notes, volume 5, American Dialect Society, page 473. From the entry civvy cat
• The men were princely dressed in pin striped suits, fedora hats and broad toe shoes with patterned vamps.2020, Veronica Purcell, The Fourth Zaldizko (Seriphyn Knight Chronicles; book 2), Katarr Kanticles Press, page 7. From the entry desirably
• But if fishing for striped bass is a piscatorial religion, then fishing for hardtails is its cultish counterpart.2020, Brendan Richards, “How to Catch Bonito and Albies From Shore”, in On The Water. From the entry hardtail
• By both study and exercise, he knows the culture of striped bass better than I know my own nose.2009 June 28, Salvatore Scibona, “Think Like a Fish”, in New York Times. From the entry outfish
• At the county work farm, the prisoners were put in striped uniforms and made to cut roadside grass with kaiser blades.2004, Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, Vintage. From the entry kaiser blade
• I put on a striped hooded sweatshirt I got from the five-dollar bin at the Esprit outlet, and my jelly shoes.2001, Rebecca Walker, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self. From the entry jelly shoe
• But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.2000, Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls. From the entry hexapod
• But the magnificent striped, mottled, and hemlined skirts, and the martial names the tulip hybrids used to have, are long gone.2000, Anita Albus, The art of arts: rediscovering painting, page 246. From the entry hemlined
• Skin tight pantssuits, striped gloves, rabbit-fur lined.1975, Red Jordan Arobateau, Ho Stroll: A Black Lesbian Novel, book 2, Red Jordan Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry pantssuit
• Tank-topped black crepe pajamas come with a reversible quilted coolie jacket — black on one side, striped on the other.1975 March 6, “In Tempo Of The Times, Couture Shows Switch-N-Swap Multiples”, in Circleville Herald, 92nd year, number 55, Circleville…. From the entry tank-topped
• How can I tell them that they must never expect too much from a middle-aged fellow in striped cotton pajamas?1963, Morris West, The Shoes of the Fisherman. From the entry condescension
• The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons.1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, page 30. From the entry americano
• Striped fitch has coarser hair and is not so valuable.1948, Kay Hardy, Costume Design. From the entry fitch
• The man was about thirty-five, very handsome, extremely well-dressed, with striped trousers, a black Homburg and a Burberry raincoat.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 35. From the entry well-dressed
• There are other kinds of hewing also adopted in dressing of stone, such as scabbled, striped, grooved, fluted and piended.1917, Frederick Thomas Hodgson, Builders' Reliable Estimator and Contractors' Guide: A Complete Guide for Pricing All Builders' Work…. From the entry piended
• A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764. From the entry blacktail
• Corfe, who was again impeccably afternoonified, in black boots and a pink-and-white striped waistcoat under his navy suit, drew himself taller for a moment.2019, Charles Finch, The Vanishing Man, page 234. From the entry afternoonified
• She wears a very full, ruffled poplin skirt in a bright color, such as red, Mexican pink, yellow or blue, striped with colorful ribbons.2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles. From the entry Mexican pink

Meaning of striped

1. adjective Having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color.

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Questions about striped in a sentence

How do you use striped in a sentence?

Striped is used as an adjective. For example: “Jim is the boy in the striped polo.”

What is a short sentence with striped?

“Skin tight pantssuits, striped gloves, rabbit-fur lined.”

What does striped mean?

Striped means having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color.