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stripes

Pronunciation: [straɪps]

Word

Learn how to use stripes in a sentence: 9 audio examples across 3 meanings.

Context: “appearance”

(noun) stripes are long, thin lines that are different from the spaces around them. Imagine a candy cane with red and white lines going up and down. Those lines are stripes!

Example

The zebra has beautiful black and white stripes on its body.

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The shirt without stripes looks plain and very boring.

Example

What colors are the stripes on your favorite sweater?

Context: “classification”

(noun) stripes can also mean the way we recognize or group things based on certain characteristics, like badges or ranks in the military. They show how experienced someone is.

Example

The general wore many stripes on his uniform to show his high rank.

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She didn’t have any stripes on her uniform, so she was a beginner.

Example

How many stripes do you need to earn a promotion?

Context: “patterning”

(verb) to stripe something means to add stripes onto it. You can think of it like coloring a picture so that it has lines in different colors.

Example

She decided to stripe the canvas with bright colors.

Example

He didn’t want to stripe his artwork because he preferred a solid color.

Example

Can we stripe the fence with red and white colors?

How to pronounce stripes

Pronunciation: [straɪps]

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