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stripe

[strahyp] / straɪp /


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He said Noah was wearing a white Bluey T-shirt, shorts and black Vans trainers with a white stripe.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The intense pull of Seville’s silver drew fortune-seekers of every stripe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Over time, his revolutionary stripe of paint would reach billions of people and guide drivers across the planet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

While the now-replaced aircraft sported a blue and white exterior, the new aircraft has a navy blue underbelly, thin red stripe and blue upper body.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

The barber scraped off another stripe of soap and whiskers.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hilton arrived like he was ready to party in Hermosa Beach, in a black open-collar shirt that was either seersucker or unironed, dark blue slacks and white Adidas with orange ombre stripes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The small feline, about the size of a domestic moggy, went under the radar because it was confused with other wild cats that share similar spots and stripes.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Businesses of all stripes are struggling to predict how long high energy costs will last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Also, the turquoise marker is dry because I use it so much—so the ink runs out halfway through coloring the stripes.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

Guests are welcomed by a gorgeous entrance with 10-foot ceilings, where striped wallpaper, crown molding, and large arched doorways immediately set the tone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

During summer peaks the hives become home to about 180,000 of the striped insects.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

At Mitsuwa Marketplace, the sprawling Japanese supermarket outside Chicago, Pastry House Hippo sells a frankfurter inside a beautiful yeasty shell, striped with ketchup.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Jumping from mall to mall, largely in the western United States, it expanded, and its uniforms of bright striped shirts and hats became a symbol of mall life of the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

And every turn he took through the twisting striped pathways led to more tents, more signs, more mysteries.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

We bought a bunch of road rental companies — all those orange barricades and cones and striping you see on the roads.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

If the lane striping isn’t perfect, though, the lane-keeping assist sometimes disables itself, so I don’t rely on it completely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Knitters can opt for smaller patterns that require less yarn, or use up leftover yarn through designs that allow for different yarns to be cobbled together, such as striping.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2025

The sun cast warm light through long windows, striping the pink-and-white checkered floor and bathing the marble arms, heads and wings of the ancient Grecian statues around me.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

With his friend beside him he stepped confidently out the courtyard gate, into the long shadows striping the Street of the Goldsmiths.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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