Example Sentences

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The Seattle Department of Transportation has striped a westbound transit lane on Northeast Campus Parkway to help reduce delays for Montlake buses detouring via University Bridge.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2021

The abstract artist Sean Scully has striped his canvases in yellows from palest omelet to warning flare.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2019

There has been a month which has striped the vacant mind in three colours, constant in relative position, but without form, yellow floor, green walls, and a blue ceiling.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

It has striped flowers, while all others are whitish green.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.