Of course we all know that our robin is a true thrush, young robins having their breasts thickly spotted with black, while even the old birds retain a few spots and streaks on the throat.
The song sparrow may, of course, be known by the streaks of black and brown upon his breast and sides, and by the blotch which these form in the centre of the breast.
Coloring matter added after the paint has been thinned is likely to break up in lumps which leave streaks when brushed out.
Care should be taken to see that all knots and sappy streaks shall be covered with a coat of orange shellac.
The next morning, as soon as it was light enough to see, the work was commenced again, and by noon the last piece of rotten honeycombed rock with its streaks and wens of dull virgin gold had been cleaned up.
The valley is pure desert, although there are a great many brilliant green streaks in it, where streams of melted snow water flow down from the mountains and either disappear in the sands or just manage to reach the river or the lake.
Steam blebs, together with crystals and their embryonic forms, are left arranged in lines and streaks by the currents of the flowing lava as it stiffened into rock.
The plain is built of far- stretching beds of clay, penetrated by streaks of sand, and also of gravel near the mountains.
Red streaks of blood upon the outside of the stool are due to lesions of rectum or anus.
When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.
A small tug, throwing up two glittering streaks of spray with its broad bow, was towing three barges through the narrow opening of the lagoon to Corpus Christi, whose docks showed signs of unusual bustle.
The smoke from two dozen shag pipes settled like streaks of mist in the sultry air of the tropical night, which came in at the open windows.
Here and there were long birdlime streaks of a ghostly white staining the tower from sea to air, readily accounting for its sail-like look afar.
It was impossible to recognize the features of Bogun, for they were covered with streaks of blood which flowed out of the wounds in his head and which immediately grew stiff in the chill air.
Long streaks of white smoke were blown out at it from the breastworks, as if some gigantic bosom were striving to blow away the locusts closing in upon it inexorably from every side.
The moon had risen, and sent long white streaks to the centre of the forest and lighted its dark depths.
The smoke stretched out in long streaks in the quiet air, and covered the scene of conflict.
Gaunt stars glared down on the Titan peaks; And the gaunter glare of the cratered streaks Of the sunset's ruin heard condor shrieks.
At times the moon, erupting, streaks Some long cloud; like Andean peaks That double Horizon-vast volcano chains, The earthquake scars with lava veins That bubble.
Here and there he discovered flame-colored streaks in it.
The first grey streaks of dawn crept through the long curtained windows, as he stealthily opened the door of his room.
She sat gazing across that beautiful sea with its blue surface flecked by rippling streaksof turquoise, or purple, or deep emerald, as its wondrous depths were affected by a brilliant sun.
O flashing muzzles, pause, and let them see The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar; Then let your mighty chorus witness be To them, and Caesar, that we still make war.
Before our eyes a boundless wall of red Shot through by sudden streaks of jagged pain!
It dwelt, too, upon the silver streaks in his dark hair and made his face seem more pallid, and more old.
The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saints' effigies, over the little fretted canopies, the grime and the white streaks of bird-dropping.
We had reached the thicker part of the forest by the time the bright streaks in the east announced the rising of the sun.
At last I became conscious that the light was increasing, although I could nowhere see the bright streaks which usually usher in the dawn.
A number of craters are surrounded by a system of light streaks or rays of unknown origin that extend in some instances to enormous distances on all sides of the crater.
As these streaks cast no shadow they are apparently cracks in the surface that have filled up with some light-colored material from below.
His plumage was purple and green, and shining golden streaks played through it; on his head there waved a diadem of feathers, so resplendent that they glanced like jewels.
I see where the breeze dashes across it by the streaks or flakes of light.
It is a faint intimation, yet so are the first streaks of morning.
In this grass very often, purple streaks or bands occur across the leaf blades and the sheath and the spikelets become purple on one side as is met with in P.
Sometimes at the base of the rachises, main or secondary, glandularstreaks are seen as in the rachises of Sporobolus coromandelianus.
There are glandular streaks at the base of the branches above the point of insertion in the naked portion and also on the pedicels of the spikelets.
Eggs with the brown background have in addition to the black and dark-brown streaks and dashes which cover the other type, chiefly about the larger extremity, a number of confluent, cloudy blotches of deeper shades of the same color.
She slouched along like a crab, each roll of the hull showing streaks of marine grass and barnacles.
The sky had darkened strangely, but pale streaks of light, coming from one knew not where, filtered through the trees.
Faint streaks of light now appearing in the east, he began quietly to make a move, having first satisfied himself that the goblet was still in his sleeve.
With the first streaks of dawn his comrades departed; but Wang slept well on till about nine o'clock, when he got up and proceeded leisurely home.
She'd put on another petticoat streaked yaller and blue, but insted of running up and down, the streakswere a foot wide, and run round and round like the hoops of a barrel.
Soon each was housed, and all was quiet ere the first streaks of dawn rose upon the sleeping town, and the cold bleak shore, and the dull waves of the brooding Channel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "streaks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
