STREAK in a Sentence

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73 example sentences for STREAK, such as:

1. There was a streak of blood on his face.
2. There's a nasty streak in her character.
3. There is a streak of cruelty in his character.
4. There are these dark streaks on the surface of the moon.
5. A quick, bright smile went round like a streak of sunshine.

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 Meanings and Examples of STREAK
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streak
 n.  a line or long mark of a different color from the ground; stripe; vein
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  But in a little while I see a pale streak over the treetops, and knowed the day was coming.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
3  We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
4  Well, when the river rose pa had a streak of luck one day; he ketched this piece of a raft; so we reckoned we'd go down to Orleans on it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX.
5  Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS
6  Soon a red streak became visible in the horizon, the waves whitened, a light played over them, and gilded their foaming crests with gold.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
7  He opened the window; a bright yellow streak crossed the sky, and seemed to divide in half the poplars, which stood out in black relief on the horizon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 108. The Judge.
8  She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  She turned her face from me and looked off at the red streak of dying light, over the dark prairie.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
10  In another moment the twang of the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the cover, to the very feet of his hidden enemy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
11  It was, however, continued without any apparent consequences, until the moon had set, and a pale streak above the treetops, at the bend of the river a little below, announced the approach of day.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
12  A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
13  Yonder she is, standing in a streak of sunshine, a good way off, on the other side of the brook.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
14  Watching the streak of smoke, Sergey Ivanovitch walked gently on, deliberating on his position.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 4
15  A quick, bright smile went round like a streak of sunshine.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ONE
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Yeah, just wait for that first three-game losing streak next year and see how good their baseball fans are.
2  There was a streak of blood on his face.
3  There is a streak of cruelty in his character.
4  There's a nasty streak in her character.
5  Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.
6  I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by someone across the lawn.
7  In a little while I saw a pale streak over the treetops, and knew the day was coming.
8  Although Susan seemed a tractable young woman, she had a stubborn streak of independence.
9  As interstellar dust and debris crashes into the earth's upper atmosphere, it burns up in an intense streak of light across the night sky.
10  Central Florida has become the poster child for this issue, courtesy of the 23-game winning streak that has shone a light on the inequality in the sport.
11  Story lines are never lacking in the annual Ohio-Michigan rivalry, the latter is looking to snap a six-game losing streak, and then knocks off Northwestern in the title game.
12  There were dark streaks down her cheeks where she had been crying.
13  Meteors produce streaks of light as they burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
14  There are these dark streaks on the surface of the moon.
15  I was surprised and cheered to see how far dawn was advanced: what rosy streaks were beginning to brighten the east.