How to Use striated in a Sentence

striated

adjective
  • Bright hot-air balloons dotting the pale sky over a striated desert.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Collins was, foremost, an artist and an interpreter of the striated psyche.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • The striated herringbone-tile floors in the bathroom are chaotic.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 3 May 2021
  • These elegant, striated cylinders are chewy and caramelized on the outside and soft and custardy in the middle.
    — Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The park’s Big Badlands Overlook peers east, where the moon will climb above a sea of striated crag.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers are not the first to wonder about striated caracaras’ intelligence.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • The writing box Is possibly coromandel, a rare wood with striated grain lines.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 2 July 2020
  • 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
  • In the oven, the layers blow apart and the result is a biscuit striated like fancy Italian marble.
    — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists tested 15 striated caracaras that had no prior training on the puzzle box.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Ambient lighting and modern touches like striated wood trim add elegance.
    — Scotty Reiss, Parents, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The temples are crafted from genuine buffalo horn, hand-finished in Germany, and come in vibrant, striated tones that make each pair one-of-a-kind.
    — Dan Michel, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In a few larger works, photographs are patterned into a grid, each image showing taxicabs, figures, sidewalks, and buildings touched by striated light.
    — Tess Edmonson, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The beach was filled with stones that had been smoothed to perfect ovals and circles by thousands of years of being tossed by the sea, some gray and striated with pure white, and others that when wet were the color of emeralds.
    — Nicole Krauss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 6 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • These striated layers of sandstone, mudstone and coal make up the Judith River Formation.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Try the sweeping Pinnacles Overlook, where the striated rhyolite sprawls to the western horizon.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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