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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.