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streak

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verb

as in to stripe
to make stripes on light from the setting sun streaked the clouds in brilliant bands of pink and orange

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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of streak
Noun
The index has also jumped 7% so far in May and, at roughly the halfway point, was pacing to break a three-month losing streak. Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 18 May 2025 Manny Machado’s 14-game hitting streak, the second longest of his career, ended with his going 0-for-4 last night. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
Verb
Moments later, the Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows display team streaked across the sky in a flypast that left trails of red, white and blue smoke. Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 5 May 2025 Photos taken in the plant show equipment whose outer surface was streaked with drips from formula ingredients that had leaked. Heather Vogell, ProPublica, 4 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for streak
Recent Examples of Synonyms for streak
Noun
  • The yellow-green trout featured a red stripe on its side and a white underbelly.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 21 May 2025
  • Video clips posted online depict Babbitt, wearing a stars and stripes backpack and a Trump flag draped around her neck, stepping up and beginning to go through the waist-high opening of an area of the Capitol known as the Speaker’s Lobby when a gunshot is heard.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • The Truist Championship, though, provided a glimmer of analytical hope.
    Justin Ray, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • In the years since, Henricks and his team have taken those glimmers of potential and transformed them into a thriving organization.
    Sponsored Content, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Rumors have begun circulating about the possibility of the Celtics making a major splash to acquire Flagg, a lifelong fan of the team.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and while the Marché Du Film is as booming as ever with exciting packages of future films, there are plenty of titles playing in competition or in the Cannes sidebars that could make a big splash at the box office or the awards season race for the right buyer.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The Stirling family expects that all video and audio footage along with every report and shred of evidence related to this deeply disturbing shooting be preserved for presentation in due course as part of the lawsuit the family will be pursuing.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 8 May 2025
  • The upshot: Not a shred of pink was seen at the Peter Rabbit themed affair.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When the daily decided to take a walk back in time to celebrate 50 years of Women’s Fashion Industries on Aug. 15, 1950, a look at the Easter Parade and fashion trends of the day was included, noting that the parade had grown from a sprinkling of 400 people to over 4 million.
    Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Vessel’s proposal in Newtown also hit a sprinkling of public opposition, and planners voted 3-2 against the project.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • More recently, the brand has ventured into makeup — infusing its bestsellers with hints of color and forging the way for the skinification of makeup.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 21 May 2025
  • Scientists in Taiwan looking for a ninth planet in the solar system claim to have found hints of it in archive images of the night sky taken by long-dead infrared telescopes.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Porziņģis was limited in this series just to the same kinds of actions Kornet runs, but doing it with less force, coordination and touch.
    Jared Weiss, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • From Chatbot To Co-Coach: The Rise Of Human-AI Partnerships At Work Some leaders worry AI will replace the human touch.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Within the span of a few days, an innocuous speck can turn a loaf of bread from prime sandwich material into a hideous mass of blue-green fuzz—an appetite-killing sight if ever there was one.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 1 May 2025
  • The dark speck near the bottom at the end of the line is Curiosity.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Streak.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/streak. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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