stripe
noun
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing.
had striped
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past perfectof stripe.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A seating area had striped blue-white armchairs and a sofa beneath a sea-themed painting.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2018
The curved walls now had striped tan wallpaper, and the coffee table had been replaced by a walnut-and-mica table that, Obama noted, would resist stains from water glasses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2010
Millard had striped his face with a handful of bomb-pulverized brick dust, an odd gesture that seemed part mourning ritual.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The checker pigs had checker bibs on, the striped pigs had striped bibs on.
From Rootabaga Stories by Maud Fuller Petersham
We came to a tall barber pole which a careless painter had striped with black on white instead of with red on white, and we knew by that we had arrived at the frontier.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
