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Example sentences for "stripes"

Lexicographically close words:
strings; stringy; strip; stripe; striped; striping; stripling; striplings; stripped; stripper
  1. In the mean time the stars and stripes were floating gloriously.

  2. Ellsworth's blood was up and he resolved to take down that flag and hoist the stars and stripes with his own hand.

  3. But the war was at an end, the stars and stripes were floating over Sumter, the Union was saved, and slavery was doomed.

  4. The government had decreed that at twelve o'clock noon of that day the stars and stripes should be raised above Fort Sumter.

  5. The appearance of Lugaid Red-Stripes gives a reason for his subsequent introduction in the link between the two forms of the story.

  6. He makes a merit of returning thee Haply and in his letter claims reward Which thou thyself shalt pay with servitude Exacted henceforth heavier than before-- Besides the stripes and brands for runaways.

  7. The logs of the Concord and of all the vessels commanded by Perry show that under his discipline less, and not more, than the average of stripes were administered.

  8. The flag of Liberia contained stripes and a cross, emblems of the United States and Christian philanthropy.

  9. The stars and stripes were hoisted to the peak of the flag-staff raised by the San Jacinto’s carpenters on the afternoon of September 3d.

  10. Passing safely the fire rafts, and the Challmette batteries, she was the first vessel to display the stars and stripes before the city.

  11. This systematic punishment, after examination, and the certainty that the stripes were laid on the right back was a new thing to the blacks.

  12. The old flag of stars and stripes given to Savory by Commodore Perry is still in possession of his widow, and is held in great reverence by his children and grandchildren, all of whom profess allegiance to the United States.

  13. While this was going on, and the forward vessels were ascending the river, the stars and stripes were seen to rise over the city.

  14. Matthew Perry was born when our flag bearing the stars and stripes was so new on the seas as to be regarded with curiosity.

  15. Four days slipped away, and another stately vessel floating the stars and stripes appeared in the bay.

  16. But the width would be just long enough for a skirt--though the peasant skirts have almost all a band at the bottom with the stripes running round-ways.

  17. They are coarsely woven in bands of raw black-rusty wool, with varying bands of raw white wool or hemp or cotton--the bands and stripes of varying widths going cross-wise.

  18. On the white cross-stripes there are no lovely colored flowers of rose and green and magenta: the three favorite Sardinian colors: nor are there any of the fantastic and griffin-like beasts.

  19. Madama has had pelisses of green satin with broad stripes of black velvet made for all her ladies, which they are to wear at Venice, and is taking a fresh supply of jewels to lend them when they arrive.

  20. Its general color is creamy white, marked with black cross-stripes everywhere except the belly.

  21. The general color of the upper parts is a slightly purplish chocolate-brown; buttocks and upper parts of fore and hind legs have wavy black stripes on a buff ground.

  22. The horse may have descended from a striped ancestor, stripes still sometimes remaining, especially in duns and mouse-duns.

  23. Paint the colors in stripes on the cardboard, first the three primary, which should be allowed to stand; then the secondary are produced by rubbing one color over another, e.

  24. General color of light Brahma, white, with black tail and black center stripes in both hackle and saddle feathers.

  25. The compact body of the badger is covered with blackish fur, with white stripes at the neck and head.

  26. Is of the nature of a leopard and prettily marked with stripes and oblong spots.

  27. The majority have two stripes of white hair, extending the whole length of the skin, but these are cut out by the manufacturing furrier and sold to the dealers in pieces for exportation.

  28. The white stripes cut out of skunks are made into rugs.

  29. Mr. Ward says that he shall leave England in the last steamer, in time to see the American eagle spread his wings, and with the stars and stripes in his beek and tallents, sore away to his knativ empyrehum.

  30. Among the Kiowa the number of transverse stripes upon a woman's legging indicates the scalps or coups won by some warrior kinsman.

  31. Through the mists they could see the stars and stripes waving over this upper battery, which had mistaken them for Confederate soldiers.

  32. For the first time since the war had begun, the Stars and Stripes floated again in sight of New Orleans.

  33. We stood in till it was judged we were in her track, and then hove to, with the stars and stripes flying at the main gaff, as a signal that we wished to speak her.

  34. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure also of the stripes be.

  35. According to the measure of the sin shall the measure be also of the stripes be.

  36. In other faults of less degree it prescribed the punishment of stripes or of public disgrace.

  37. According to the measure of the sin, shall the measure also of the stripes be.

  38. All the roads were drenched just now; and wet chalk is a most slippery thing, especially when it has taken blue stripes from the rubbing of soft iron, the “drag” of some heavy waggon sliding down the steep with a clank and jerk.

  39. There are many birds which have stripes of variously coloured feathers situated above, before, and behind the eye; while others sometimes occur at the base of the lower mandible.

  40. The cheeks and cheek-stripes appear almost bare, the wings and tail are shaped like those of the last-mentioned bird, though the tail is somewhat longer and more rounded.

  41. Its forehead is of a dazzling whiteness, and the rest of a brilliant carmine red; the wings are of the same colour, with two lighter stripes running over them; the under part of the body is also of a bright red.

  42. The cheek-stripes are grey, the forehead green, and the cheeks partly greenish yellow and partly a blueish ash-grey.

  43. The Green parrot (Chrysotis æstivus), on the contrary, has its forehead and cheek stripes of a sky blue colour.

  44. The female has broad yellow and reddish-yellow spotted stripes similarly disposed, both upon the outer and the under side of the tail-covers.

  45. Moreover, the Department was altogether too rigorous in withholding good conduct stripes for breaches of discipline.

  46. Plains and hill-sides are alike covered with the stripes which denote the limits of property.

  47. Others have but the rag of a gown--a few stripes of stuff over their coarse chemises.

  48. Others were wearing the stripes in San Quentin or Folsom.

  49. The penalty was State imprisonment, the stripes and the lockstep.

  50. The men in stripes worked a shorter day than I at my machine.

  51. Let's run up the Stars and Stripes and dare 'em to fire on us," said Captain Scraggs.

  52. There were some who had only one black stripe, like a wide ribbon, drawn from one ear to the other, across the eyes, and three little stripes on the cheeks.

  53. DIM'ITY, a stout cotton fabric, ornamented in the loom either by raised stripes or fancy figures.

  54. The ribbon is dark-blue, white, and dark-blue, in stripes of equal width.

  55. It is marked with dark stripes on a yellow ground, and may attain the length of 15 feet.

  56. Other stripes are drawn in curves along the back, and from the breast down on the abdomen.

  57. I thought at once how nice it would be for me to plant the Stars and Stripes on the highest mountains there.

  58. And over the brave brother, who looked down from the north wall, hung proudly the Stars and Stripes for which he had given his young life.

  59. There were the red roofs of the town, and the batteries, which were to thunder word when the red and yellow flag of defeat went down and the victorious Stars and Stripes rose up.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stripes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    battery; beating; flagellation; lacing; lashing; spanking; strapping; thrashing; trouncing; uniform; whipping