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stripe

A long, thin part of something which is a different colour from the parts beside it. A zebra has black and white stripes.

stripe

To mark with stripes.

stripe

(= band) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service (= bar) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background a green toad with small black stripes or bars may the Stars and Stripes forever wave a kind or category businessmen of every stripe joined in opposition to the proposal mark with stripes (= stripes) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service they earned their stripes in Kuwait

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Simple sentences

Life is like a zebra; white stripe, black stripe, and the ass at the end.

Movie subtitles

In the course of duty you might get a stripe. What's the good of a stripe if I've got no arm to wear it on?
He always wore a gray woolen cap with a white stripe and a pompom.
With a white stripe?
It'll show on your record when you come up for that extra stripe.
And they're giving you a half stripe. Good heavens!
I'd give my stripe for a mouthful of water.
A stripe job would give you more personality, mister.
Red, with a white stripe.
Well, do I look like I wear stripe pajamas?
You girls seen a brown bag with a white stripe and my initials?
In it was great mountain lion with stripe painted on fur.
Speak me this, Kiowa Pacer. Why white man paint stripe on mountain lion?
Here are today's papers, sorted according to political stripe -You saw them, I hope?
Ladies and gentlemen, I raise my glass to Captain Hubert who just earned a well-deserved third stripe. To his lovely wife, our hospital's head nurse, whose beauty and competence will support her husband's brilliant career.
Oh, and I meant every stripe of it.
A little extra reach on a punch, a set of brass knuckles a stripe on the sleeve, a badge that says cop on it, a rock in your hand, or a bankroll in your pocket.
You'll get that extra stripe. Thank you, Sir.
Promotion? This is Mr. Roberts! You think he gives a good hoot about another lousy stripe?
Anybody who says he's bucking for another stripe is a dirty liar!
Every time Jackson runs an errand, Cooney tips him a stripe.
I'm transferred to the Var. With an extra stripe.
What's the one thing you want most in the world? General's stripe, am I right?
Judy, hit that line, move the zebra up to the 20-foot stripe.
Jeannie, it was a little envelope about this big with a red stripe.
They placed a special magnetic stripe on top. If this isn't dealt with properly, whether it's the Royal Family or South Korea, it'll both be finished.
He has a Ranger medallion, two silver stars, and a community stripe.
How much does stripe-ties pay?
Stripe-ties.
With an extra stripe.
Well, you've got to earn that new stripe somehow.
I'm wearin' white pants with a red stripe.
Johnson's gonna be staring at my wheelie bars all the way down the stripe.
I've never noticed before he's got a stripe in the middle.
Yeah, Medore, the one with the stripe down the middle.
Too bad our celebration will be of more mundane stripe than I had intended.
Look, that one's got a cute stripe on its head.

News and current affairs

Others have been imposing capital controls of one stripe or another.
But if our civilization is worth defending, why is it that fundamentalists, of whatever stripe, have the most committed fighters on their side?
Of course, religious fundamentalists of whatever stripe often emphasize similar codes, norms, and values.
If this happens, everyone will lose - apart from terrorists and radicals of every stripe.
The strident and damaging dogmatism of fundamentalists of every stripe has a common feature: a truculent sense of grievance, rooted in fear and resentment of modernity.

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