Example Sentences

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Any flush of heat upon them through any aperture in the shelves will cause them to dry streakily.

From Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers by Cox, George J.

Before his eyes field and coppice, hedge and homestead, stream and flowing highway, all blurred and ran streakily into one another, like a highly impressionistic water-color.

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

Perspiration was trickling down his face, and painting him, streakily, with iron rust and mud.

From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)