striped

Example Sentences

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Gallina, 75, was clad in a floor-length dark green striped appliqué jacket and clutching a paper ticket when she declared the Olympics to be a nuisance that has “nothing to do with Milan’s essence.”

From The Wall Street Journal

He wanted to be like the train guy in the book, and drive an engine, and wear a blue-and-white striped hat.

From Literature

I fingered striped suspenders and stiff new overalls, peeked in the pickle barrel, and examined jars of peppermint sticks and jawbreakers.

From Literature

She wore the striped skirt and tunic of Plaszow’s female prisoners.

From Literature

Doves flew up from their perches, lizards darted out of the way, a squirrel with a striped tail leaped up a branch, and a bush fowl took to the wing from out of nowhere.

From Literature