How to Use striation in a Sentence
striation
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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
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The front is marked by diagonal striations and the five Olympic rings.
—Dan Gartland, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
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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
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Iris The colored part of the eye has unique furrows, striations, pits, and variations.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 May 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Band of Brothers Slope-ready sweaters whose varying degrees of striation echo Mr. Redford’s pullover.
—Todd Plummer, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
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At times, their faces also displayed parallel lines of groves and striations.
—William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Then, Frayer began to look at striations on Neanderthal teeth.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
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Plato talks of inequality and class striations as being the biggest threat to Greek society.
—Fred Swegles, Orange County Register, 22 Mar. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The condition looks like white striations running parallel to the regular muscle.
—Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 1 Feb. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Physical manipulation is also key when dealing with striations at any stage with any topical, and this rich formula definitely will massage nicely into the skin.
—Danielle Blundell, womenshealthmag.com, 6 May 2023
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The blue halo is created by tiny, irregular striations—usually lined up in parallel fashion—and is found in all major groups of flowering plants pollinated by insects, the scientists report today in Nature.
—Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2017
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