Example sentences for: stripes

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

  • Hemming the top of a shirt pocket is a short operation, for example, but it takes longer to attach the pocket and longer still if stripes must be matched.

  • The Rio Grande blanket has particular characteristics, with designs that include wide bands and various zones of narrow stripes.

  • Along this 160-km (100-mile) coastal strip, resorts and holiday villages of all stripes have sprung up, so wherever you are based, you’ll never be far from a good beach, a reasonably sized town, village, or resort, shops, and nightlife.

  • But today a shirt manufacturer’s “basic” collection typically includes solid white, blue, and a white/blue weave, as well as white with color stripes in pure cotton, cotton/polyester blends of various mixtures, and other fabrics like 100-percent cotton oxford, pinpoint oxford, and several qualities of broadcloth.

  • Ahab predicts four of them (stripes 1, 5, 6, 7), only the stripe 3+4 element is not recovered.


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