[
UK
/stɹˈiːkt/
]
[ US /ˈstɹikt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹikt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations
streaked hair
fat legs and dirty streaky faces
How To Use streaked In A Sentence
- All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
- Her clothes were streaked with mud.
- Fraction by fraction it rose, then a dirt-streaked brown forehead appeared over the broken bricks.
- Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote, as indeed the grand and infinite was always.
- Blood-streaked sputum and hemoptysis are not unusual in later stages of illness.
- I blinked in surprise; her dark, sandy-blond hair, rough in texture, was now streaked with green.
- The whole hand was a mass of yellow pus, streaked with sanies.
- Thinking it was Jude, she leapt up and streaked across the room.
- He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
- Transformants were streaked on appropriate omission medium and single colonies were picked for further analysis.