Example sentences for: streak

How can you use “streak” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Every expressive shape or shiny streak in a coat and suit bore the dread suggestion of effeminacy, connoting both a lack of integrity and an unbridled vanity felt to be unavoidable in women, but criminal, even thuggish, in men.

  • "American cockiness over its display of military technology in the Gulf and Yugoslavia, and smugness over its longest post-war prosperity streak, can blind it to a need to cultivate its relations with Russia beyond promoting democratisation.

  • His bowling buddies and co-conspirators--John Goodman's character, a gun-toting Vietnam vet with an intellectual streak, and Steve Buscemi's, a nice guy who's always one step behind--are also neatly drawn.

  • Hoffa fils shares his father's virulent anti-federal-government streak, but he lacks Dad's fire, organizing skill, and toughness.

  • Their battle is so furious that the blades streak and lose definition--it's almost subliminal.


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