How to Use striation in a Sentence

striation

noun

• The blood had striations in it like it'd been pushed with a push broom, an attempt at clean up.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Nov. 2019
• The front is marked by diagonal striations and the five Olympic rings.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
• On 16 of the tools, the microscopic striations and polishing on the stone matched the sorts of wear caused by cutting fish or meat.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2018
• Iris The colored part of the eye has unique furrows, striations, pits, and variations.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 May 2004
• The standard method is to view pairs of bullets side by side under a split-screen microscope to see if the striations line up.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2019
• Leave the striations of fatty goodness within the chunks of meat, but trim the outer caps of fat so that there only is a light layer left.
  — Emily Spicer, ExpressNews.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The mixed media works often echo the texture of sand or craters, bringing to mind sidewalks or striations.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, not in the sense of the phrase, but actually not a single vapor formation — just striations of light to lighter blue lifting from the horizon.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 20 June 2018
• The intermittent sunlight and shadows brought out an array of colors in the striations of the rock layers.
  — Brady MacDonald, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• The canyon walls showed vertical striations of rock layers, even as small waterfalls poured down from above.
  — Chris Mooney, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• Band of Brothers Slope-ready sweaters whose varying degrees of striation echo Mr. Redford’s pullover.
  — Todd Plummer, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
• At times, their faces also displayed parallel lines of groves and striations.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• The striations he's created digging deep into the surfaces he's built up, create a rhythm in his work, almost like bars of music.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The high-quality photos speak loudly for their subjects, large and small — mountains and glaciers, wildlife, tiny flowers, striations on rock, bluest ice.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2018
• Around the denser filament there appear to be striations in the gas that astronomers suspected might be caused by waves propagating through the cloud.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
• The same striations infect the other images in the painting, of Ray-Ban sunglasses promoted in two large banner ads.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• The water helps bring out the colors in the soil: standard tan sand and darker striations of charcoal and even some hot pink that show where prehistoric roasting pits existed.
  — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
• Rocks lodged under the heavy ice scored the bedrock underneath, and from a distance, these parallel scratches (called striations) could be said to resemble combed hair.
  — Marnie McInnes, The Atlantic, 7 July 2017
• Carter explains that the striation of diamond and triangle linework on the isicholo and collar (above)represent the South African Ndebele people.
  — Fawnia Soo Hoo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2022
• Then, Frayer began to look at striations on Neanderthal teeth.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
• Plato talks of inequality and class striations as being the biggest threat to Greek society.
  — Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
• The jack-o’-lantern face has moving green flames pouring from the eyes, nose and mouth, a broad, grinning mouth, a long, prominent stem that curves, and dark striations delineating the segments of the pumpkin giving it a yellow-and-orange design.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2019
• There are bright and distinct striations visible in the lower frequency portion (bottom) of the spectrogram.
  — Jeff Kao and Jack Gillum, ProPublica, 25 June 2019
• Other signs showed up only under a microscope, which revealed roughly polished areas and parallel striations or scratches on the surface of the flint, etched by pyrite.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 26 July 2018
• Beyond the impressive glacial striations, the 677 acres of rocky, wooded island off the coast of Ohio are resplendent in swimming, sunbathing, and fishing opportunities.
  — Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2023
• The condition looks like white striations running parallel to the regular muscle.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2017
• Some of the most beautiful dresses in Simons’s first couture collection for Dior were made from fabric that duplicated the sensuous, blurred, green-and-pink striations of an abstract Ruby painting.
  — Bob Colacello, Vanities, 31 July 2017
• Leo’s version comes in a fluted glass tumbler that showcases its appealingly messy striations, as spoonable as pudding.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2020
• Bite marks included punctures, scores, furrows, pits and striations, marks in which the individual denticles of a serrated tooth leave subscores on bone surfaces.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 May 2020
• Every spring, the peacock-bright feathered striations surprise her: magenta twisted with antique white, tangerine and black exploding into hot pink, violet tinged with butterscotch.
  — Nancy Hass, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024