STRIPE in a Sentence

Learn STRIPE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

42 example sentences for STRIPE, such as:

1. The plates have a blue stripe round the edge.
2. The book has a diagonal black stripe on the cover.
3. A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.
4. The zebra is a wild African horse with black and white stripes.
5. Businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRIPE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stripe
 n.  a kind or category; band; ribbon
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  A pair of military trousers, light blue with a yellow stripe, serve to give that suggestion of authority proper to the leader of a band.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  One of these flags was red and blue with an almost imperceptible stripe of white between.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS
3  A resigned striped kitten was clutched to her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
4  Racks of magazines, and pictures of coy fat prostitutes in striped bathing-suits.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Schminke's bead necklace and Whittier's error in putting on the striped pants, day like this.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  He's about as big as a big 'possum, and his face is striped, black and white.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
7  She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
8  The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
9  She lost three toes from one of those pretty little feet that used to trip about Black Hawk in pointed slippers and striped stockings.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
10  They produced a photograph taken just before I went away to college: a tall youth in striped trousers and a straw hat, trying to look easy and jaunty.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
11  From this depended, over the bed, light curtains of rose-colored gauze, striped with silver, supplying that protection from mosquitos which is an indispensable addition to all sleeping accommodation in that climate.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  Ascending the narrow wooden staircase to the upper floor, and arriving upon a broad landing, Chichikov found himself confronted with a creaking door and a stout old woman in a striped print gown.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
13  While the flaxen-haired man was clad in a dark-blue coat, the other one was wrapped in a coat of striped pattern.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  Yet far better would it have been for them if they had been clad in plain striped smocks, and running about the courtyard like peasant children.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
15  The door was flung open, and in the doorway was seen a plump, short, little old woman in a white cap and a short striped jacket.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  She wore a bright green jogging suit with a white stripe down the sides.
2  The book has a diagonal black stripe on the cover.
3  The plates have a blue stripe round the edge.
4  The butterfly is black and white with a blue stripe running down each wing.
5  Businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal.
6  The animal is easily distinguishable by the black stripes above its eye.
7  The zebra is a wild African horse with black and white stripes.
8  The technology, ubiquitous in Europe, Canada and elsewhere, makes it harder for thieves to misuse data compared with cards that store data only on magnetic stripes.