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
  • Subtle striations mean no two pairs ever look—or feel—quite the same.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Its base is crafted from iron eye stone, known for its golden striations.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The front is marked by diagonal striations and the five Olympic rings.
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • At times, their faces also displayed parallel lines of groves and striations.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • His eyes glowed a bright blue, his dark brown hair disappeared, and his face and scalp took on a lighter blue hue with long, almost veiny, striations.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • 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
  • The cells at the top of the striations had ample oxygen; those at the bottom had virtually none.
    — Carrie Arnold, Quanta Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Iris The colored part of the eye has unique furrows, striations, pits, and variations.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 May 2004
  • Similarly, white oak offers a clean contrast to the warmth of teak or the striations in acacia.
    — Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The pops look like rectangles of white and fuchsia marble, with striations of a deep, vibrant pink throughout.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • 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
  • Yet many still bear a signature of their provenance in the form of faint longitudinal striations.
    — Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The summits are coated with attractive striations of snow that make the mountains look like giant liquorice allsorts.
    — James Rampton, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occur when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2026
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occur when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Web-like striations or corking on jalapeño skins occurs when plants are stressed by irregular watering, dry soil, or high heat.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were proliferations of bulbs that looked like something a pathologist might worry about and striations that might have been crops seen from above.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Then, Frayer began to look at striations on Neanderthal teeth.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2018
  • The blue and white striped patterns are likely due to striations that were put into the ice hundreds of years ago, when the ice was dragged across Antarctic bedrock.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Single-trunked and straight, their bark color ranges from almost white to light gray and is smooth except for horizontal striations of darker grays.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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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