Example sentences for: striped

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

  • Matthau had on his Einstein clothes (floppy brown wide-wale corduroy pants, brown suspenders, a gray striped cotton-short-sleeved shirt, Rockport shoes) and his Einstein makeup ...Saks was costumed in a Panama hat and cream-colored jacket and pants; Jacobi in cap, gloves, spats, and a too tight vest over a big belly: Maher in a white-and-black-checked coat, tweedy pants, and round-rimmed glasses.

  • Scantily dressed women, most of them in black, and black-clad men lay about drinking wine on huge striped and solid-color cushions scattered about in groupings of three or four on the grass, or sat at the 30 or so tables beneath the trees.

  • The 1835 white clapboard lighthouse here has been restored with a jolly red-and-white striped dome, while a less-attractive modern concrete tower does all the work.

  • Begun in 1143, its arcaded façade varies the patterns of its four tiers of columns — sculpted, striped, scrolled, chevroned — in pink, green, black, or white marble.

  • The double arches overhead, striped in red-and-white, form a fanciful canopy of curving branches.


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