In what may be considered as full dress, with the face and body painted, they are often decked out with large white cowries appended to their waist, elbows and ankles, together with streamers of pandanus leaf.
Great streamers of wild grape-vine hung precariously from weary limbs and swayed to and fro gently in the wind that came mounting up the slope from the west and went dipping away to the eastward, leaving a soft, shuddering wake.
As she came up the streamers began to fly from every spar and mast, and Harry ran up to Stut, and asked why the Pioneer did not have them out.
The vast coronal streamers and the still more extensive ring of the zodiacal light are therefore in all probability due to the same causes, and have a similar physical constitution with the tails of comets.
It is therefore held to be produced by the minute particles thrown off the sun, through those coronal wings and streamers which are visible only during solar eclipses.
The enormous extensions of the corona into great angularstreamers seem to indicate electrical repulsive forces analogous to those which produce the tails of comets.
That tall post like a flagstaff, with streamersflying from it, is a praying-post; can you make out the figure like a weather-cock at the top?
Flags were flying everywhere, and from booth to booth were stretched garlands of flowers and streamers of ribbons.
Before us, up the mountain, long streamers of hostile vapors are swinging over the downs, trailing to the ground and at times brushing down to our own level; but the wind keeps hunting them off, and so far their tenure is hopefully precarious.
At present we see merely a few old women bearing panniers toward the city, and rope-makers at work upon greatstreamers of hemp which stretch from tree to tree.
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, The streamers waving in the wind, When black-eye'd Susan came aboard.
Why on the banks of Gemna, Indian stream, Line within line, rise the pavilions proud, Their silken streamers waving in the wind?
Cecil is her foil,--Cecil, in lace over infantile blue, with a knot of streamers on one shoulder in narrow blue satin ribbon and a blue sash.
While this was going forwards two small brigandines were seen rowing towards our ships, ornamented with flags and streamerson their masts, beating drums and sounding trumpets, and filled with men who plied their oars.
Then comes a rocky spur crowned by the imposing castle of the Gyalpo, the son of the dethroned king of Ladak, surmounted by a forest of poles from which flutter yaks' tails and long streamers inscribed with prayers.
The finer powdered debris followed after, in a long succession of white streamersand curtains resembling cascades and waterfalls.
Long streamers of falling snow or rain would then approach, and in a few moments we would feel the effects at our camp.
The boys plucked bamboo stalks, and strung on their branches bright-colored ribbons, tinkling bells, and long streamers of paper, on which poetry was written.
Floating all around their bodies, like the streamers of a temple festival, or a court lady's ribbons, are their long tentacles or feelers.
The streamers thinned out, and seemed to come from some boat well round the corner, but I could see at least two boats in view.
At normal times we would have been easy marks, but, fortunately, wisps and streamers of mist now clung about that hollow.
Deve Boyun was hidden by a spur of hill, but up in the north, white clouds, like the streamers of evening, were hanging over the Euphrates glen.
The first streamers of morn had gone, the mists had dried up from the valleys, and I found myself looking into a deep cleft and across at a steep pine-clad mountain.
It must be about four o'clock of a midsummer afternoon and a cloudless sky, except for white streamers over Tinto.
But if streamers and prominences were absent, the corona itself was a great glory.
With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving.
From the parrot streamers of colored baby ribbon led to the different places, and tied to the ends of the ribbons were tiny notes in envelopes.
Lavender streamers were added next to the blue ones, and their badges were complete.
A tray of red ribbon streamers was passed, and each girl pinned one on her blouse, as the beginning of her rainbow badge.
Had one of the streamers of fire that criss-crossed the sky landed on the sand to flicker out its life?
Amid the vale below Tents rose, and streamers played And javelins sparkled in the sun, And multitudes encamped Swarmed, far as eye could follow, o'er the plain.
This dome was covered with black velvet, and overlaid with the arms of Scotland and Aragon, with streamers like those on the chariot yet again repeated.
The argosy which carried his fortunes was about to sail with canvas spread and streamers flying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "streamers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
