streak - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • lose: A losing streak a lot of men out from.
  • win: The award winning streak does not end there - the National Festival Awards saw more glory for the club.
  • possess: The Bracco requires training and firm handling as they do possess a stubborn streak, however they will not tolerate any harsh handling.

Adjective modifier

  • winning: Sure, you can have a good winning streak of 50 % return for several years.
  • winless: Burnley continued their poor start to 2006 with defeat to local rivals Preston, stretching their winless streak to six games.
  • rebellious: Then thereâs that rebellious streak that runs through my bones.
  • ruthless: LALD was pure Moore; suave, cool, witty with a ruthless streak.
  • unbeaten: Americans hope to build on unbeaten streak against Canada.
  • stubborn: The Bracco requires training and firm handling as they do possess a stubborn streak, however they will not tolerate any harsh handling.

Modifies a noun

  • mosaic: First report of the wheat streak mosaic virus in Australia.
  • virus: First report of the wheat streak mosaic virus in Australia.

Preposition: across

  • sky: Then the shuttle - streaking across the sky like a meteor - started to break up.

Preposition: of

  • lightning: For well over half a century a black dog has been poised over a streak of lightning in the center of Bungay Market Place.
  • dawn: The bowed guitar symbolizes streaks of dawn enveloping the horizon.
  • humor: There's also a strong streak of black humor in this piece, which is really its most memorable feature.
  • luck: Only one thing stood between him and success: an unbroken streak of bad luck dating back to his birth.

Preposition: with

  • gray: Behind it the fading golden sky Is streaked with the gray of evening clouds.

Noun used with modifier

  • maize: Detection and typing of maize streak virus and other distantly related geminiviruses of grasses by polymerase chain reaction amplification of a conserved viral sequence.
  • wheat: First report of the wheat streak mosaic virus in Australia.
  • silver: She sat and stared down the long silver streak of the loch far below until her heart confirmed what she felt deep inside.

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