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  • adverb In a streaky manner.

Etymologies

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streaky +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I thought I wanted a dark green but then saw a slab of streakily wavering, striated peach and grey and umber that resembled ancient dry riverbeds seen from the air.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The smell of grease and the raucous sounds of the television followed him up three more flights, where the stairs ended in a dim hallway with streakily distempered walls.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • The smell of grease and the raucous sounds of the television followed him up three more flights, where the stairs ended in a dim hallway with streakily distempered walls.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • The smell of grease and the raucous sounds of the television followed him up three more flights, where the stairs ended in a dim hallway with streakily distempered walls.

    All Shall Be Well Deborah Darden Crombie 1994

  • 'You beast,' said the girl, her eyes flashing, her mascara running past her streakily powdered nose.

    The Heart Of A Dog Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 1968

  • The fog grew still denser, lifted for a moment while he wrote his name many times on slips of blue paper; closed down once more, and again lifted -- out-of-doors this time -- to show him a lunatic ballet of moons dancing streakily upon the horizon.

    His Own People Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Before his eyes field and coppice, hedge and homestead, stream and flowing highway, all blurred and ran streakily into one another, like a highly impressionistic water-color.

    The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906

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