Example Sentences

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“When people were streaking across the field and the cops were chasing them, they were laughing like, ‘You can’t catch me,’” recalled the 67-year-old resident of Westlake, Ohio.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

I put my head down and pulled toward the shore, and, when I looked up, several hundred were streaking across the sky.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

At Alpengeist, I hung back with two kids whose parents were streaking overhead at nearly 70 miles per hour.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2021

Scarcely two hours after the attack, U.S.-made Iranian Phantoms were streaking toward two Iraqi bases in the Basra area.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blue lights were streaking across the evening sky toward Olympus like tiny comets.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan