How to Use striated in a Sentence

striated

adjective

• The sheets of striated rock reach up to 700 feet high and line more than six miles of coastline.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
• This is a far cry from the striated pop that shows up in the Spotify Top Hits playlist.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 31 May 2018
• Haskey’s home, a one-room octagon at the base of a striated rocky rise, has no running water at all.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• Made of clay, it was wedged above a human skull and surrounded by fragments of a striated wig.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• But the long, flat, striated slab of beef under the ranchero sauce on my plate looked, sawed and chewed like undercooked skirt steak, no matter what it was called.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 26 Dec. 2019
• Collins was, foremost, an artist and an interpreter of the striated psyche.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
• The striated herringbone-tile floors in the bathroom are chaotic.
  — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 3 May 2021
• In some species, like the striated frogfish, males and females come together and release sperm and egg into the water.
  — National Geographic, 16 July 2016
• The striated caracara, found chiefly in the Falklands and on the southeast coast of South America, is the subject of Meiburg’s extraordinary book.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• The writing box Is possibly coromandel, a rare wood with striated grain lines.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 2 July 2020
• From a distance, the striated limestone promontory looked like an enormous bar code—but as our eyes adjusted, the fortress walls and a whole town built right into the rock came into focus.
  — Rebecca Misner, CNT, 20 July 2017
• This natural jute and wool Couristan rug has a dotted ivory diamond pattern on a striated taupe and gray background.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• In a 1903 gelatin silver print, Roosevelt can be seen beneath a giant sequoia, nearly lost in the gargantuan tree’s striated trunk.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
• Scientists tested 15 striated caracaras that had no prior training on the puzzle box.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• The most exclusive weave from the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, is created by weaving fine metal wires into the fabric and then cutting the silk to release the wires, leaving the striated velvet pile.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• The song braids its tender melody, flush with fluttery accents and voiced in a wonderfully striated tone, into a mellow groove that retains a certain bounce despite its pace.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 13 Oct. 2017
• Soft scrubbings of floating color and ghostly striated lines define the latest suite of paintings by Marjorie Norman Schwarz.
  — Matthew Bourbon, Dallas News, 15 Jan. 2020
• There are three main types of muscle tissue: smooth muscle lines the gut wall and organs, except the heart; cardiac muscle is striated and covers the heart; and skeletal muscle, which can be found in the arms and legs, is also striated.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
• Today those are cliffs 150 feet tall, striated and multicolored by those sediments spreading and drying across the ancient delta.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• That sweet potato hash also tried hard to support a braised mass of aromatic pork belly, but the brown-on-brown tangle had more in common with carnitas or pulled pork than the striated structure of pork belly.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
• Step into the lobby and you’re greeted with a towering slab of striated marble running floor-to-ceiling over the fireplace, and two-story windows that face out on the ridges and ravines of the property, which feels a world away from nearby Park City.
  — Travel + Leisure Staff, Travel + Leisure, 19 Feb. 2020
• Looking at the specimen from the side is like looking at a striated slab of sedimentary rock, layer upon layer stacking to create space for the kimchi and cheese.
  — Madison Wilson, TheWeek, 25 Oct. 2020
• But striated caracaras — colloquially known as Johnny rooks — are special by dint of their rarity and their far-flung homeland.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Walk by the multiple bars with elevated libation offerings and striated themes, and workers are loading in cans of beer and painting a counter power-blue.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 6 May 2022
• Over three extended pieces, his striated long tones glisten with sour harmonics, cavernous overtones, and breath surges that make the music expand and contract in visceral waves.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Dec. 2017
• The topography is riven with canyons, ravines and gullies, interrupted by striated buttes, hunkered beneath the cloudless sky like silent messengers from the past.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
• The topography is riven with canyons, ravines and gullies, interrupted by striated buttes, hunkered beneath the cloudless sky like silent messengers from the past.
  — Mike Sager, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• In the second gallery, artists consider what is done to bodies by war: six small clay figurines by Michele Oka Doner, bound and striated, suffer the cumulative loss of body parts until only a stumpy torso remains.
  — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2023
• Ten rubbings on synthetic paper, made on striated surfaces using graphite and Renaissance wax, suggest lenticular postcards of the Shroud of Turin: in each one, a black oval peers through the middle like an adamant apparition.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Sedona, gateway to Arizona’s red rock country 90 minutes drive north of Phoenix, attracts hikers eager to scale its striated buttes and New Age pilgrims seeking the fabled vortexes — or energy centers — said to be squired in the rocks.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024