Bill Bryson

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.

American Writer

D. B. Sweeney

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

American Actor

Kyle Korver

American Athlete

Diego Simeone

Argentinian Businessman

Use 'streaky' to describe something with visible lines, which could be natural or made by something else.

Visual Imagery

'Streaky' often refers to the texture in foods, showing lines of fat or lean meat.

Texture Description

When something is 'streaky', it may imply a lack of consistency in quality, like uneven painting.

Uneven Quality

In sports, 'streaky' describes inconsistent performance, alternating between very good and very bad.

Sports Usage

Use 'streaky' to highlight the fluctuations or variations in someone's behavior or performance.

Emphasizing Fluctuation

 and we've seen him quite regularly lately and very characteristic black stripe on the face sort of through the eye from the eyebrow and a very streaky chest very easy to identify thrushes versus robin chats which frequent very