yellow streak
Example Sentences
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A yellow streak seems to indicate a faster, more aggressive hit, and a pink streak means “you’ll be damn lucky to hit this.”
From The Verge • Apr. 27, 2022
Another Jones signature is to paint a red or yellow streak on one side of the canvas or its top, perpendicular to the wall, so that when the light hits, a diffuse glow forms.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022
“It has a yellow color because there’s a yellow streak in the middle, somewhere between daffodil and lemon yellow,” she said.
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2013
And in a world drowning a little more each day in apathy, I choose to occasionally call out the cowards, if only to briefly shine a big, bright light on their little yellow streak.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2013
You didn't believe in me, old chap; at the bottom of their hearts all my old pals thought I'd shown the yellow streak; and I couldn't stick it.
From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
