- present tense form of stripe (3rd person singular).
stripes
Example Sentences
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"There was such excitement around the whole of Whitley Bay - every shop had things in the windows, the blue and white stripes," says one of the volunteers, Jenn Robinson.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Businesses of all stripes are struggling to predict how long high energy costs will last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The researchers then arranged horizontal and vertical stripes in systematic combinations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Older incumbents of all ideological stripes swept the state’s Democratic primaries Tuesday night.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Zebras need their stripes so predators can’t tell where one starts and the other ends, and that makes it hard to pinpoint one animal to attack. Elephants don’t need that because they’re so big.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
