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Example sentences for "stripe"

Lexicographically close words:
stringless; stringpiece; strings; stringy; strip; striped; stripes; striping; stripling; striplings
  1. His furry Quaker jacket Is trimmed with stripe of black; A furry plume to match it Is curling o'er his back; New curved with every motion, His plume curls o'er his back.

  2. On the anterior segments, above on each side a transverse purplish stripe along anterior and one along posterior border and across the dorsal region, a shorter but broader stripe a little in front of the middle of segment.

  3. The color in the abdominal region light fulvous, in the thoracic darker with a narrow brownish stripe along caudal border of each segment laterally and ventrally.

  4. The body in general light brown; but ventrally there is a median longitudinal fulvous stripe over the ventral plates.

  5. Between the horns a white stripe commences, and after reaching the line of the eyes widens out so as to cover the face to the very muzzle.

  6. The chickens are brownish-yellow, with a broad brown stripe down the middle of the back, and a narrower one on each side; feet and legs yellow.

  7. It was this circumstance which prevented the red and white stripe of the ships at Venice, noticed above, from being visible.

  8. The caterpillar is greyish, with a broad whitish or yellowish stripe along the back, divided down the centre and edged by blackish lines; a velvety black mark on ring seven; raised warts and hairs dark greyish.

  9. Sich, is pale yellowish green, rather whiter on the upper surface; the lines are green, the central one darkest; the stripe along the spiracles is yellow edged with green.

  10. Fore wings, leaden grey with a yellow stripe terminating in a point at the tip of the wing; the hind wings are pale ochreous yellow.

  11. The caterpillar is pale slaty grey, with an irregular yellowish stripe on the back, with black spots forming a central line; the raised spots are black and shiny, as also is the head.

  12. The caterpillar is ochreous brown, more or less tinged with green, minutely dotted with dark grey, forming indistinct blotches; the stripe along the black spiracles is yellow tinged with green below.

  13. Von Schwanthal could, for a long time, trace the light stripe which the swimmer left behind him in the water.

  14. I ought to see the stripe that was made on the back of Jesus by each of my sins.

  15. Black Hornbill, with the abdomen, stripe on each side of the nape, and tip of the tail white.

  16. Black; throat yellow, upper mandible black, the upper half yellow, with an oblique green stripe and transverse spots; the under mandible black.

  17. The band for strengthening the muscles used in blowing the flute, phorbeia, is indicated by a red stripe; the chiton is ornamented with a narrow red stripe on the shoulder down each side, and round the hem.

  18. The figure is painted white with a red stripe down each side.

  19. The phorbeia is indicated by a red stripe across the mouth; the headdress, probably a wig, comes very low on the forehead, and falls in a thick mass on the back of the neck.

  20. The color of the flowers is usually a deep bright blue shading to violet and the six divisions grow paler toward the base and have a brown stripe on the outside; the buds are greenish, striped with brown.

  21. The corolla is from one and a half to three inches long, slightly irregular, white with a broad stripe of warm-yellow on the upper petal and often all the petals striped with pink.

  22. Within love, within hatred it is, And its seed in the stripe as the kiss, And in slaves is the germ, and in kings.

  23. O sweetest, fairest, first, O flower, when times were worst, Thou hadst no stripe wherein we had no share.

  24. Indeed, his tendency to improve upon existing customs had well-nigh put an end to the friendly relations which now subsisted between the white men and the natives, for he took a fancy to have a red stripe down each of his legs.

  25. Last of all, one-half of his face was painted red, and the other half black, with a stripe of white extending from the root of his hair down to the point of his nose.

  26. Suddenly he distinctly saw her lying on the ground; he heard the swish of the whip; he observed a blood-red stripe on the soft, nude, submissive body.

  27. He saw an endless grey stripe that stretched aimlessly away into space, as though swept onward from one wave to another.

  28. There are prudent people of that stripe in every nation, but since the end of May they have kept silence in Italy.

  29. But what Giolitti and men of his stripe the world over cannot understand is that the people are never as crafty and wise and mean as their politicians.

  30. They dye the wool of different and bright colors, and stripe them with very neat figures.

  31. There is little doubt but that the stripe represents a fold of cloth that in some cases covered up these buttons.

  32. Atli of Bjarg had a good stallion of Keingala's race; grey with a dark stripe down his back.

  33. I have a dun mare with a dark stripe down her back whom I call Keingala.

  34. If we hold a penknife in the flame of a light, a coloured stripe will appear across the blade.

  35. Experiments also should especially be made with different shades of grey placed next each other, where every stripe will appear light by a darker, and dark by a lighter stripe next it.

  36. Thus the yellow spreads over the light with a broad border, but the yellow-red appears as a narrower stripe and is next the dark, according to the doctrine of augmentation, as an effect of shade.

  37. The portion of the stripe which was nearest to the flame is light blue; this melts into blue-red; the red is in the centre; then follow yellow-red and yellow.

  38. If we make this experiment with a white stripe on a black ground,[1] the two extremes will presently meet, and thus produce green.

  39. With a stripe of black paint scraped off the jar, one can look through the bag and into the jar and see when the water is boiling - then it is safe for sure.

  40. Scrape off a vertical stripe so that you have a clear glass "window" to look into the vessel, to check the food or water for boiling.

  41. It was surf,--there lay the land, and plainer and plainer as the light increased appeared a blue stripe above the dark waves of the horizon.

  42. The snow was discolored with blood, and a broad stripe of large dark red spots pointed out the path he had taken.

  43. Wait a minute, we have got the shirt which you have identified as the rust brown shirt with the gold stripe in it.

  44. I said that is the shirt he had on because it had a kind of little stripe in it, light-colored stripe.

  45. Then he had on a brown shirt with a little silverlike stripe on it and he had on some kind of jacket, I didn't notice very close but I think it was a work jacket that almost matched the pants.

  46. I wouldn't be sure of the shirt if it hadn't had that light stripe in it.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stripe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    animus; aptitude; badge; band; bandeau; bar; baste; beat; belabor; belt; bent; bias; blaze; blemish; blood; blotch; box; brand; breed; buffet; cane; cast; chalk; character; characteristic; check; checker; chevron; chicken; clan; class; club; color; complexion; composition; constitution; crack; craze; cudgel; cuff; cut; dash; define; delimit; delineation; demarcate; denomination; description; designation; diagonal; diathesis; discolor; disposition; dot; drub; eagle; eccentricity; engrave; epaulet; ethos; feather; fiber; fibre; fillet; flagellate; flail; flake; flap; flog; form; frame; freckle; gash; genius; genre; genus; grain; habit; hairline; hatch; hatching; hide; horsewhip; hue; humor; idiosyncrasy; ilk; impress; imprint; inclination; individualism; kidney; kin; kind; label; lace; larrup; lash; leaning; line; list; lot; make; makeup; manner; marble; mark; mettle; mind; mold; motley; mottle; mould; moulder; mouldy; nature; nick; notch; number; order; patch; pencil; pepper; persuasion; phylum; physique; point; pommel; predilection; predisposition; preference; prick; print; proclivity; propensity; property; pummel; punch; punctuate; puncture; quality; race; rawhide; ribbon; riddle; scar; scarify; score; scourge; scratch; seal; seam; shape; slant; slap; slash; smack; smite; sort; spangle; spank; species; speck; spirit; splotch; spot; sprinkle; stain; stamp; star; stigmatize; stipple; strain; strap; streak; streaking; striate; striation; string; strip; stripe; stroke; stud; style; switch; system; tape; tattoo; temper; temperament; tendency; tenor; thrash; thump; tick; tone; trace; tribe; trounce; turn; twist; type; underline; underscore; variegate; variety; vein; wallop; warp; way; whale; whip; whop; wings