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"Stripe" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Life is like a zebra; white stripe, black stripe, and the ass at the end.
But if her death ensue thereupon, he shall render life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
Yellow or stripe rust has been in the region for many years but was contained by using certain resistant crops.
zebra stripes
8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lightning bolt of intellect.
persons of the same political stripe
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those.
Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
Forty stripes he [the judge] may give him [the wicked man], and not exceed:
1735, James Thomson, The Four Seasons, and Other Poems, London: J. Millan and A. Millar, “Winter,” lines 353-354, p. 21, [Tyrants] at pleasure mark’d him with inglorious stripes;
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Stones to eat and bitter water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.
A certain Abbé Chuppe d'Auteroche [...] asserted that in Russia, the vapor baths, stripes were administered to the frequenters as a stimulus to the venereal appetite.
But if there were any one who tried and could not make her laugh, he would have three red stripes cut out of his back and salt rubbed into them and, sad to relate, there were many sore backs in that kingdom.
[At the Saturnalia] not even a word of reproof would be administered to him [a slave] for conduct which at any other season might have been punished with stripes, imprisonment, or death.
I did try to ask questions and talk to Nanny but different things but that was considered "Talking back" or sassing which resulted in the striping of the legs or mashing of one's mouth, and then being put in the dark closet until the crying stopped.
But when practice yielded no improvement, curses and the crack of a whip followed. Stripped, lying face down on the ground, Platt absorbed the master's rage, lash after lash striping his buttocks, shoulders, and back.
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