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Streaked

adjective

Marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations. Synonym: streaky. "Fat legs and dirty streaky faces"

Streak

verb

(past & past part. streaked; pres. part. streaking)

Move quickly in a straight line.

Run naked in a public place.

Mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained. Synonyms: blotch, mottle.

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"Streaked" Quotes from Famous Books

... and she began to laugh helplessly. His hands were wetly, pinkly, unnaturally clean, but his round, rosy, sunny little face was appallingly streaked and black. ...

— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher

... a yearning cry; Gray's streaked, swollen features were grotesquely contorted. "You won't be mad with ...

— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach

... flock of purple finches is near, and so greedy and busy are they that you may approach within a few feet. These birds are unfortunately named, as there is nothing purple about their plumage. The males are a delicate rose-red, while the females look like commonplace sparrows, streaked all over ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... in the car. All the little Italian babies had been given drinks of water, and strange things to eat, and tumbled to sleep across laps and on seats, anywhere they would stick. They looked so funny and dirty and pitiful with their faces all streaked with soot and molasses candy that somebody had given them. The mother looked tired and greasy and the father was fat and dark, with unpleasant black eyes that seemed to roll a great deal. Yet he was kind to the babies and his wife seemed to like him. She wondered what kind of a home they ...

— Exit Betty • Grace Livingston Hill

... bowls that hung by thin chains from the sloping green roof. Few of these tulips were whole coloured. They were slashed, and striped, and spotted with violent hues. Some were of the most vivid scarlet streaked with black. Others were orange-coloured with livid pink spots, circus-pink, such as you see round the eyes of horses bred specially for the ring. There were white tulips, stained as if with blood, pale pink tulips ...

— Flames • Robert Smythe Hichens

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