Слово "streak". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

A quick, bright smile went round like a streak of sunshine.

As Syme had done earlier Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-coloured gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern.

The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball’s back, and a sheep dropped dead.

Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather’s suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family.

There was a streak in her of that same desire to ponder, of that adolescent idealism that had turned her brother socialist and pacifist.

Either the aunt or the niece, he thought, had an original streak in her make-up.

He had the bleary face of a gambler who’s been losing all night and only at the break of dawn finally hits a winning streak.

He had been on a winning streak lately.

Like a gambler`s lucky streak

His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd.

Fierce shafts of color streaked through the thin atmosphere beneath them.

The sun was setting, the sky to the west was streaked with red and orange.

I believe,’ she said, with a faint light of humour streaking the clouds, ‘I believe you and he tease Mr Samgrass rather.

Now, as Aurora streaked over the desolate Labrador Sea, Delta-One’s CrypTalk indicated an incoming call.

It fell on to the middle of the table, right into a long platter, which it broke in half. From there it fell to the floor, turned round on three legs as it waved the fourth in the air as though executing a dance-step, and instantly streaked out through the back door, which was slightly ajar.The door opened wider and the cat was replaced by the face of an old woman in a headscarf, followed by her polka-dotted skirt.