stretch mark

noun

1. a silvery streak occurring typically on the abdomen or thighs and caused by stretching of the skin over a short period of time, as during pregnancy or rapid weight gain.

Example Sentences

The scars that I have, the stretch marks that I have, everything that my body has been through it’s for a purpose, it’s for a reason…but I do feel a little pressure.

From Essence.com

The Ponderosa pines seemed especially content, thickening their trunks—the new bark forming reddish stretch marks between the old blackened skin.

From Popular-Science

If you were to look deep inside my body, beneath the dark circles and stretch marks, you would find the cells of my four children, a legacy from pregnancy living on within me for the rest of my life.

From Washington Post