streaky

IPA: strˈiki

adjective

Having streaks.
(cricket) Used to describe a shot where the ball deflects off the edge of the bat, but is not caught by the slips or wicket-keeper and instead results in runs for the batsman.
(chiefly of a person, usually Canada, US) Having alternating periods of good and bad performances; inconsistent.
(archaic, slang) Having periods of irritation or bad temper.
(soccer) Not well-executed, due to luck more than skill.

Examples of "streaky" in Sentences

The make up was streaky and bold.
The bacon used is streaky, smoky bacon.
The plumage is streaky red brown and spiky.
Its certainly more common that streaky bacon.
Los Angeles had a very streaky season in 2006.
Pretty, petite with streaky brownish blonde hair.
Can't scan anything on it without streaky lines appearing.
It never did really dry properly and it was streaky and patchy.
Obviously there should be no real objection to calling it streaky bacon.
His shooting has been described as "streaky," but with a nice 3-point touch.
Powerboy's empathy calmed the fear of humans in Streaky helping domesticate it.
In basketball parlance, Brooks is known as "streaky"—and that reputation extends beyond his shooting touch.
The Slovak, known as a streaky player, began hitting accurate groundstrokes as Roddick's game turned erratic.
Indeed all the region about the Pleiades, for an area of ten square degrees, is involved in streaky nebulosity.
Probabilities can get "streaky," but there's a very human element that separates situations like this one from pure probabilities.
Unlike other products that leave your skin streaky, orange, or just uneven, CellaDerm is easy to apply and produces a smooth, even tan that can make golden brown beach-goers jealous.
It's just as well the back four is stepping it up - and yet to concede a goal against any of the other top-five sides - because the attack remains out of sorts, with Wayne Rooney still searching for his best form and Dimitar Berbatov's goal-scoring can only be described as streaky at best.
Not only that, but you also get a rasher of thick, ham-like bacon (as opposed to our kind of thin bacon, which the Irish call streaky bacon); some amazing sausages, which practically melt in your mouth; fried tomatoes and mushrooms, toast, and blood pudding, which is basically coagulated blood made into a sausage patty.
If I had to pick one of them, I would give Lindsey a slight edge only because she tends to be a more consistent player whereas Venus can be a little bit streaky, which is both good and bad, because when she gets on a good roll, she can put together points really well, although when she gets on a little bit of a bad roll she can spray the ball and be a little bit sporadic.

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