Sentence examples for striped from inspiring English sources

A prisoner waters a flowerbed, conspicuous in his convict's striped pyjamas (green stripes for harmless, black stripes for the more worrisome, red stripes for Do Not Approach).

And, alas, two weeks after I had berated the JW Anderson sales assistant for not stocking a blue and white striped menswear shirt I wanted badly on its womenswear rails.

"As soon as Altuzarra sent a barely buttoned black-and-white striped one down the runway in New York last September, it instantly felt like the modern-day dress of the season – and one that can easily take you through to dawn".

I should know – another one inherited from my mum is striped, with fluted sleeves.

At first it seems as though nine-year-old Londoner Willie Beech is sent from one terrible, abusive situation to another; but Mr Tom isn't as gruff as his exterior… I also adored The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.

The boys now live there full-time and button up each morning into striped uniforms to attend local government-run schools.

The animals were all dun-coloured, in various shades, and all had dorsal stripes and zebra-striped legs.

Some people showed up in the Astros' famous orange-striped "rainbow" jerseys from the 1970s.

Before I can join the activists who rush into the Queen's Head, Farage, looking angry and pin-striped, walks quickly from the pub into a waiting car driven, reportedly, by his wife.

The host of the debate, a black pastor resplendent in gold-and-green-striped suit-sleeves, declared that this was the first time he had even considered voting for a Republican.

And out of her peeling, greenish doorways could come women in furs, or pink hair-curlers, or orange-striped socks.She did not rate her own work highly.