white-streaked love

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  • adjective having white streaks

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Examples

  • She had severe, white-streaked brown hair wound around her head in a braid coronet and pale crystal eyes.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • Patrice and Lizzie shrieked, as the actress, looking shocked, turned on the toilet and followed the swollen, purplish-blue cord down into the blood-spattered bowl and retrieved a slimy, white-streaked baby Lizzie knew it was probably a doll, but it looked so real!

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • Patrice and Lizzie shrieked, as the actress, looking shocked, turned on the toilet and followed the swollen, purplish-blue cord down into the blood-spattered bowl and retrieved a slimy, white-streaked baby Lizzie knew it was probably a doll, but it looked so real!

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • These species include the invisible rail (Habroptila wallacii), white-streaked friarbird (Melitograis gilolensis), paradise-crow (Lycocorax pyrrhopterus), and the standardwing (Semioptera wallacii).

    Halmahera rain forests 2008

  • With his ponytail, white-streaked beard and ample stomach, 58-year-old Mr. Void stands out even in this eclectic community.

    Dating Problems? Career Woes? 2008

  • None of the hundreds of men on the wide guardwalk atop the city wall, white-streaked gray stone rearing fifty feet, paid her any heed, of course.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • The background, lying upon the most distant visible plane, is the white-streaked and regular wall of the Jebel el-Ward, which we have already seen from the sea.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • She wore her white-streaked brown hair up in a fashionable pouf, and her gray dress, with its many pleats and tucks and lace collar, was of better quality than the dresses she used to wear.

    Beacon Street Mourning Day, Dianne 2000

  • Dowa Yalanne reared into utter blue, itself white-streaked ruddy, light and shadow at play across its carvenness.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

  • Her mouth full, Anna nodded as the player with the white-streaked red hair pulled up one of the chairs and sat beside her bed.

    The Spellsong War Modesitt, L. E. 1998

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