How to Use striper in a Sentence

striper

noun
  • Locate schools of shad with electronics and stripers should be close by.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Even in the hottest part of summer, stripers often feed on the surface at dawn.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
  • At the time, however, the two anglers still had a school of stripers to chase.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • Matthews slings live eels for brute stripers out of a kayak in New York harbor.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 27 May 2020
  • Anglers are catching fair numbers of white bass with stripers and wipers mixed in on the west end.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Horseshoe Bend has still been the go to spot for stripers and perch, but fishing has been slow.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Catching live shad as bait is a pain, of course, and so is keeping them alive long enough to present to a striper.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Apply topcoat to your nails and then draw lips using a striper brush and red polish.
    — Carly Cardellino, Cosmopolitan, 4 Jan. 2018
  • For smaller stripers to 8 pounds or so, throw white bucktail jigs around dock lights after dark.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But that’s okay, because where these plugs work best is on sandy, trough-laden beaches where stripers feed right in the wash.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Large swimbaits are tricking trophy-size stripers out of Verona.
    — Bee Staff, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Laci caught a couple more stripers, including one over 57 pounds.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But striper fishing still lacks a social media star for the social media age.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Once the striper comes out of the oven, spoon the olive garnish onto the pieces and scatter fresh oregano or parsley on top.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • Cast your line off the jetty for blackfish, flounder, mackerel, and stripers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • The other striper was absolutely mauled by a great white shark that wasn't a dainty diner.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Those waters hold stripers, bluefish, flounder, sea trout, redfish, snook, and many other species.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2020
  • There is speculation that the female stripers are spawning up the river arm.
    — By Roger George and Dave Hurley, sacbee.com, 9 May 2017
  • Plenty of fishing is available for catfish, bass, striper and panfish in the lake’s many coves and inlets.
    — Meghann Finn Sepulveda, azcentral, 9 May 2018
  • Double-digit stripers have twice straightened at least two treble hook prongs on Bomber stickbaits.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 29 Mar. 2026
  • My favorite morning topwater spot for stripers is at the mouth of Crystal Springs.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
  • No discussion of striper plugs would be complete without a nod to master plug builder Stan Gibbs.
    — John Merwin, Field & Stream, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The fishing pond is stocked with a varied selection of fish, including blue catfish, striper bass, large mouth bass and blue gill.
    — Mary Grace Granados, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
  • For longer casting to species such as bull redfish, jacks, big stripers, and small sharks, a 10- to 13-foot rod is a better choice.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 11 Nov. 2019
  • At Lewis Smith, striper fishing is very good around herring schools as well as along the channel edges in 60 feet and more.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That’s when, without warning, the shark suddenly went after one of the stripers, its attack so swift and so close that the shark’s tail hit the boat’s stern.
    — Kenneth Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2019
  • Lake Conroe - Guide Richard Tatsch reported limits of stripers while trolling.
    — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Not only smallmouths but also largemouths and stripers gather in the flow from late December through March.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Dec. 2019
  • White bass and a few stripers are showing up below the Nickajack dam—swim jigs or Alabama Rigs get them.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Today its spawning is confined largely to Chesapeake Bay, whence schools of stripers migrate each spring to feeding grounds up and down the coast.
    — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023

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