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How to use the word stripes in a Sentence?

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The RINO feeds on corruption and is marked by the stripes of cowardice.

Eric Schmitt

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today we are officially resuming operations at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. The Ukrainian people, with our security assistance, have defended The Ukrainian people homeland in the face of Russia's unconscionable invasion, and, as a result, the Stars and Stripes are flying over the Embassy once again. We stand proudly with, and continue to support, the government and people of Ukraine as The Ukrainian people defend The Ukrainian people country from the Kremlin's brutal war of aggression.

Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Department of Corrections needs a complete overhaul. I think people of all mentalities and people of all stripes and persuasions agree that Rikers is a mess, and when you have up to a third of corrections officers not showing up to work and leaving the inmates basically to run the jail and letting the worst that those inmates were usually the gang-affiliated inmates who reigned supreme, you're going to have violence and chaos.

Brian Kennedy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[A]ll Republicans, believe me of all stripes, will be together voting to send this administration a strong message this November.

Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's unusual, but it's got to be an important part of it, i think there's a growing realization by politicians of all stripes that it's an issue that Americans want us to deal with.

Kevin Cramer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the streets and in the criminal underworld when you do something like that you’re basically looked upon as a hero, you earn points, you earn stripes.

Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And parents of all stripes are literally trying to say 'how do we upend education. How do we make sure that it's not just government run schools. We have to have school choice.

Richard Grenell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We've just spent a year where parents across the country and I can tell you parents in California have watched their kids be taught through Zoom school. And what that really meant is parents had a peek into the classroom. They're outraged as to what's being taught, and parents of all stripes are literally trying to say 'how do we upend education. How do we make sure that it's not just government run schools. We have to have school choice.

Richard Grenell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mara Gay is old enoughto know the differencebetween the American flag and the Confederate flag. Tens of thousands of Black patriots have died in battle to defend the Stars and Stripes. What a shame that she does not appreciate this, if the American flag makes her so sick, she should move to another country, where she won't have to see it.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we're seeing in Arkansas is the most dangerous assault on the right to vote since the Jim Crow era, these bills don't just make it harder to vote, they also make it easier for partisan politicians to interfere with local election administrators -- something that could have disastrous consequences for democracy. These bills will make it harder for all voters -- of all political stripes -- to make their voices heard.

Holly Dickson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Deployed troops used to tell me that reading a copy of Stripes, even if it was days old, was a high point in their days in Iraq or Afghanistan. I think reading NFL recaps or the comics was a tether to deployed United States ' because life downrange can feel like you're on another planet.

Steve Beynon

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To shut down Stars and Stripes on Oct. 1 would defy the expressed will of the House and pre-empt full consideration by The Senate, there's every reason to expect that the federal government will operate under a Continuing Resolution when the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. Secretary Esper and Defense Department should commit to continuing to fund Stars and Stripes under such a scenario -- and when Congress completes the budget process, it should then make Stars and Stripes' funding ironclad.

Ernie Gates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When the Confederacy broke away, one of the first things that the Confederate Congress did was pick a flag, there was a big debate, and the debate centered on how close the flag should look to the American flag. They held a contest, and took votes, and what did they do ? They picked a flag with red and white stripes and stars.

Marc Leepson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

On one of my first races I saw this rider with a weird jersey with stripes, I didn't know what it was, then my dad told me it was the world champion's( rainbow) jersey !

Van Der Breggen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Like in Watergate, after more evidence gets out there ... you'll see more people of different political stripes start to support it.

Julian Castro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's a setback for Adidas, but it shouldn't be the end of their three stripes trademark.

Geert Glas

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It was as if no one before had asked kids to describe their ideal pair of glasses, they were very imaginative, asking for polka dots, stripes, super hero designs.

Nathan Kondamuri

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Rather than wearing stripes like a referee, the Mueller team overwhelmingly ought to be attired with Democratic donkeys or Hillary t-shirts, not shirts that say ‘Make America Great Again,’ because I think the American people deserve more than the very biased team they have under Mueller, it’s really sad.

Steve Chabot

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead animals.

Tony Perkins

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He's good choice, even though he may be seen as a transitionary CEO until another internal candidate such as VW brand CEO (Herbert) Diess has earned their stripes.

Evercore ISI analyst Arndt Ellinghorst

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Rather than me talking about what he did, let me tell you what I did: I stuck with it, i'm not going to change stripes on this issue.

Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was funny, because I was actually googling some players like when John McEnroe played, Arthur Ashe, they had color everywhere. They had color on their sleeves, big stripes, they were coming out in colored jackets. So I feel it's actually gotten stricter.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Mark Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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