Use strip in a sentence
Sentences ending with strip
- Colonel, the reason I came to Washington is,--I am Congressional Delegate from Cherokee Strip! [5]
- Cherokee Strip. [5]
Sentences containing strip two or more times
- The one facing me had the morning paper folded to a long, narrow strip, and I knew, without any telling, that that strip represented the column that contained my pleasant financial satire. [5]
More example sentences with the word strip in them
- Its rear communicated with the bastille by a drawbridge, under which ran a swift and deep strip of the Loire. [5]
- He asked them why they were so dull--why didn't it occur to them to strip me. [5]
- Not a sound was to be heard but the long-drawn howling of the wind, and now and then the flap of a strip of cloth torn from the velarium by the gale. [10]
- Ball's original, it was said, looked like a newspaper strip in the way it was printed, and may indeed have been a proof pulled in some newspaper office. [5]
- Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. [5]
- It was the usual note--as to paucity of lines--and was written on the customary strip of paper; but there was nothing usual about the contents. [5]
- To climb a tree and shake it, to club it, to strip it of its fruit, and pass to the next, is the sport of a brief time. [4]
- He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. [5]
- They simply helped themselves to whatever they fancied, and were, of course, in a position to strip the son of the great Mukaukas of all he possessed and reduce him to beggary. [10]
- People lived in them yet, but it was dangersome, because sometimes a strip of land as wide as a house caves in at a time. [5]
- The soft light, the warmth, the exotic odour of the plants, the well-dressed people who trod softly the strip of carpet set on the marble with the air of being at home--all contributed to an excitement, intense yet benumbing. [9]
- As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still. [2]
- She gazed at the sheepish relic of Cherokee Strip, then at her husband, and then at the guest again. [5]
- To glance at the genuine son of the desert is to take the romance out of him forever--to behold his steed is to long in charity to strip his harness off and let him fall to pieces. [5]
- He pointed across the dense foliage of the garden to a strip of water gleaming in the morning sun beyond. [9]
- New York, or that strip of it which is known to the more fortunate of human beings, is a place to raise one's spirits on a sparkling day in early winter. [9]
- He honestly believed that he had prepared the gold for the ornament on the head of the Demeter in Alexandria; yet the statue chiselled by Myrtilus had also been adorned with a diadem, and Chello had wrought the strip of gold it required. [10]
- He succeeded in stripping my waistcoat of its buttons, as one would strip a pea-pod of its peas. [6]
- And I'll not strip your 'hide,' either. [11]
- Only a narrow strip of sky was visible between the tall buildings, but, as she looked up to the heavens, she perceived that it was two hours past midnight. [10]
- She wanted to strip her soul bare before him; but she caught the look of home in his eyes, she was at his knees at peace, and what he thought of her meant so much just now--in this one hour, for this one hour. [11]
- Seemeth it not strange that madness should filch from his memory his father's very lineaments; the customs and observances that are his due from such as be about him; and, leaving him his Latin, strip him of his Greek and French? [5]
- From your smooth skin there I could strip those rags, and call upon them all to look at you--my wife--a felon's wife; mine to have and to hold--to hold, you hear!--as it was sworn at the altar. [11]
- Twice he went round, still chanting, but the third time he stooped to pick up a little strip of linen which had fallen from the window, and concealed it in his sleeve. [11]
- The camp-followers of proselyting sects have come in at the close of every life where they could get in, to strip the languishing soul of its thoughts, and carry them off as spoils. [6]
- Rent in two pieces, the strip of papyrus fluttered to the ground. [10]
- The day, already past meridian, was delightful; at least, the blue strip of it I could see overhead. [4]
- A pleasant ride over a rich rolling country, with an occasional strip of forest, brought us to Union in the evening, with no other adventure than the meeting of a steam threshing-machine in the road, with steam up, clattering along. [4]
- This was in one corner and very narrow, the walls not coming to a right angle, but having another little strip of wall between. [11]
- She almost longed on the instant to strip herself bare, as it were, and let him see her as she really was, or as, in her despair, she thought she really was. [11]
- Her eye lighting on a gourdful of water on the puncheon table, she tore a strip from her dress and washed and bound me deftly. [9]
- The floor was of mother earth alone, but a strip of handmade carpet was laid down before the fireplace, and there was another at the opposite end. [11]
- And that strip of level," he continued, pointing to a thinly timbered bit, "will hold a mile track nicely. [9]
- The level strip of ground which stretches through and beyond the town is laid out in handsome pleasure grounds, shaded by noble trees and adorned at intervals with lofty and sparkling fountain-jets. [5]
- A narrow strip of desert stretched westward before him as far as the eye could reach, dividing two levels of water. [10]
- The darkness of night spread over the sea and the arid strip of land in the south, but the greedy croaking of the ravens and vultures echoed more and more loudly from the upper air. [10]
- The white stars moved across the narrow strip of dark-blue sky above. [13]
- In the narrow meadow, a strip of vivid green south of the house, ran a little stream, fed by a copious spring, and over it was built the inevitable spring-house. [4]
- A strip of linen to bandage it! [10]
- General Cheatham made his men strip their coats off and throw them in a pile, and said, 'Now follow me to hell or victory! [5]
- Then he ordered her to be buried at once and shouted to the guards: "Everything must be over on this strip of land early to-morrow morning! [10]
- I believe that he will change the world, and strip it of its vainglory and hypocrisy. [9]
- For this purpose he sought the implement of which, as it may be remembered, he had once made an incidental use,--the lasso, or long strip of hide with a slip-noose at the end of it. [6]
- Natural beauty it has none: it is simply a long, narrow strip of ground inclosed in walls, with straight, parallel walks running the whole length, and narrow cross-walks; and yet it is a lovely burial-ground. [4]
- It is a hard fight they are going to have, and they strip their coats off and roll up their shirt-sleeves, and show themselves bare-armed and ready for the contest. [6]
- The strip of gold, from which Hermon had ordered the diadem to be made, had attracted his attention on the head of his Demeter, and compensation for the work upon this ornament was still due. [10]
- The French passengers gazed wistfully at the low-lying strip of sand and forest, but our uniformed pilgrims crowded the rail and hailed it as the promised land of self-realization. [9]
- About nine miles from St. Nicholas we crossed a bridge over the raging torrent of the Visp, and came to a log strip of flimsy fencing which was pretending to secure people from tumbling over a perpendicular wall forty feet high and into the river. [5]
- The Unqualified Member from Cherokee Strip was in a state of deep dejection. [5]
- In front is erected an altar with a broad, carpeted platform; and a strip of the platz before it is inclosed with a railing, within which are praying-benches. [4]
- There are not enough people in Cherokee Strip to give anybody a reputation, good or bad. [5]
- Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of white paper. [5]
- While speaking, he drew from the girdle which confined his blue chiton, bordered with white, around his waist, a strip of papyrus, and handed it to Semestre with a greeting from his master. [10]
- Sometimes the road dipped into a canyon of poplars, and the sky between their crests was a tiny strip of mottled blue and white. [9]
- If that I could but clothe me in raiment like to thine, and strip my feet, and revel in the mud once, just once, with none to rebuke me or forbid, meseemeth I could forego the crown! [5]
- It has a centre-pole of excellent fir, and from its peak flies a strip of snake-skin, dyed a red which never fades. [11]
- He said he believed that if you were to strip the nation naked and send a stranger through the crowd, he couldn't tell the king from a quack doctor, nor a duke from a hotel clerk. [5]
- The coward hides behind the cloud of incomprehensibility, and can be revealed only by himself--I would I could strip him of the veil! [10]
- It should have been written on a loose strip and enclosed. [5]
- One of the bear-leaders had made shift to strip the cords from his hands, and when my brother entered into the dark place where the prisoners lay, they flew at him to fell him. [10]
- She was amazed at his ability to strip a sham and leave it grotesquely naked; shams the risible aspect of which she had never observed in spite of the familiarity four years had given her. [9]
- Between the marsh and the mountains which wall the valley is a respectable strip of fertile land; at the end of the valley, toward Dan, as much as half the land is solid and fertile, and watered by Jordan's sources. [5]
- The man vanished, and returned bringing in, by his master's orders, a long strip of carpet which he laid in front of the Arab's brown and strong but delicately-formed feet. [10]
- He suddenly came among them, caught a revolver from his pocket, and shot over the reader's shoulder six times into the pasted strip of newspaper. [11]
- One thought of Agincourt and Crecy, of Waterloo, of the countless journeys across this same stormy strip of water the ancestors of these man had made in the past, and one wondered whether war were eternal and inevitable, after all. [9]
- This note, of about six lines, was written on a strip of white paper whose end-edges were ragged. [5]
- They also threatened a young missionary, who was left for a time with them, to strip him naked, and pluck the hair from his face and body, yet he was far from being a hairy man. [1]
- Can he turn a priest out of his pulpit and strip him of his office and his livelihood just upon a whim, a caprice, and meanwhile furnishing no reasons to the parish? [5]
- Beside these were a number of amulets in different forms, one representing the goddess of truth, another containing spells written on a strip of papyrus and concealed in a little golden case. [10]
- It was only a morning dress, and inexpensive, but he confessed to himself, in the English common to Cherokee Strip, that it was a "corker. [5]
- The top is a broad, windy strip of pasture, which falls off abruptly to the Bay of Salerno on the south: a regular embankment of earth runs along the side of the precipitous steeps, towards Sorrento. [4]
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