strake
Example Sentences
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Technical details haven’t been specified, but Hyundai said the stylish strakes along the bottom of the vehicle are functional, integrating the air intakes and retractable side steps.
From Fox News
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From Literature
Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer.
From Literature
But the exhibit quickly jumped to flashier models, like a 1984 Testarossa with its side strakes and horizontal design elements that make it look impossibly low and wide.
From New York Times
And it is even, actually, handsome, with the masculine, single-frame grille up front and lovely strakes of chrome at the rocker panels.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
