Sentence examples for thin streak from inspiring English sources

In 1494, his Muslim family flees the Inquisition in Granada – the coast a "thin streak of remorse behind us" – for Fez.

Next was a thin streak of eyeliner, curving up slightly beyond the corner of the eye that helped to thicken the look of the lashes, followed by a coat of mascara.

This irrepressibly jovial elf, with a thin streak of malicious devilry about him - he was Puck, hobgoblin - was in recent years most widely known for his own wild and wonderful one-man shows, which embodied the quality of "friskajolly younkerkins" that Kenneth Tynan, quoting the Tudor poet John Skelton, ascribed to Ralph Richardson's famously hedonistic, twinkling postwar Falstaff.

A thin streak or tight crack named a compressive crack develops along the principal compressive stress planes.

We love the open back detail with the thin streak of white down along the train.

I felt butterflies in my stomach, and a thin streak of sweat on my forehead confirmed my worst fears.

Numerous animal paths criss-crossed the rides, thin streaks of parted vegetation, but nothing ventured out.

Dulcie, then in her late thirties, holds the baby, Betty, whose face is a gloomy moon within a white-frilled bonnet; Joy and Shirley, the older two, are tall, thin streaks in dark dresses with Peter Pan collars; Sylvia, the third daughter, stands beaming on the running board next to her father, who is a Toadish figure in three-piece, pork-pie hat and watch chain.

The X-radiograph of the painting (Fig. 3) shows short thin streaks across most of the painting and in different directions.

To give your sketch a good touch up, try adding thin streaks of light colored pencils in your drawing.

It is usually dark-colored hair that is short in the back, side, and most of the front, but one very long lock of hair (usually rather thick, but the Misfits usually sport Devilocks rather thin) streaking down the middle of one's face or off to the side a bit.