Streaks

Shortly thereafter, Antiochus was struck with an incurable disease in his bowels and worms bred so fast in his body that whole streaks of his flesh sometimes dropped from him.

Marilla was a tall, thin woman, with angles and without curves; her dark hair showed some gray streaks and was always twisted up in a hard little knot behind with two wire hairpins stuck aggressively through it.

The last red streaks had faded away in the west and night had settled upon the moor. A few faint stars were gleaming in a violet sky.

The calm waters of Willoughby Bay reflected the early afternoon sunlight in a thousand silver streaks.

The petals were scarlet with streaks of gold.

We've had losing streaks before.

The Perseids will appear as quick, small streaks of light.

The annual Halley's Comet meteor shower peaked Monday, but the meteor streaks will still be visible in the sky by the end of the week. The world's best-known comet produces a meteor shower, officially known as Eta Aquariids, which can be seen once a year in the spring when the Earth crosses the comet's path.

The curtains had paint streaks all over them.

The New Zealand Alpine flowers are usually white—helichrysums, daisies or heaths; though sometimes the daisies are yellow, and there are mauve campanulas, and the white violets have streaks of mauve.