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    Use "straw" in a sentence

    straw example sentences

    straw


    1. this is the last straw! You lied about being sick! You lied about Grandpa being sick!"


    2. An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road


    3. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on


    4. debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed


    5. Her kindness is the last straw


    6. ’ She instructed, directing a straw between the swollen lips of the recumbent woman


    7. Straw: It symbolizes success and wealth, followed by the jealousy of people around you; a straw hat shows modesty


    8. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on the puddled floor


    9. He tried to remember; revolution, committees and sections, the great debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed


    10. straw in the other corner and simple seating arrangements

    11. straw rug in front of the fire,


    12. area was surrounded by straw and piles of what appeared to be


    13. Ethereead got up from the bed of straw and went over the fire


    14. and the smell urine on straw


    15. of a man that stands on straw ground in the sale room


    16. His scent, the scent of straw bedded animals,


    17. She was sucking hot whisky through a straw


    18. That was the straw that broke poor Archibald's back


    19. He wore a wide-brimmed straw hat and his straw slippers


    20. After all of the hardships of the last few months, this was the final straw

    21. Chattering to herself, she arranges the food on the table for us and offers to take our boots downstairs to dry them off with straw in them


    22. The final straw for Helen Roach came one Saturday morning when Lucy announced to her mother during a now rare and troubled family breakfast that she had entered a competition advertised in her favourite music magazine, the prize being the chance to meet the mystery singer


    23. … poor child … she’s been so courageous … this must have been the last straw emotionally … the crying she never did for her parents … perhaps it is better this way


    24. covered chin really had been the last straw


    25. Order for Karen was probably the straw that broke the camel’s


    26. Thick pads of straw woven into long mats had been placed about the fire pit and piled high off the ground


    27. Tightly hand woven mats were placed on this straw and then their bedding was placed on top of the mats


    28. There was a wooden pail, and a small wooden pallet, maybe six feet long and two feet wide, filled with straw


    29. By the time the sergeant was done untying her bindings, they returned with large handfuls of fresh straw


    30. In spite of the fresh straw the place still stank and it was so hot she was sweaty

    31. all of the hardships of the last few months, this was the final straw


    32. She spent the night in another police station, again with fresh straw and decent food


    33. If that was where she was, it could be worse but she wasn’t going to call it perfect, even if there were no bugs in the straw


    34. She was glad there was plenty of straw around to absorb the sound


    35. “And my depriving her of Red Hawk’s affection is the camel-breaking straw,” she finished


    36. was always more to do in the fields: the stacking of straw to dry in


    37. the sun, loading wagons with sheaves of straw and the building of


    38. He is going to call his bar The Straw Donkey, a paean to millions of package trips and the souvenirs that litter lofts throughout his homeland


    39. They played, instead, with small pieces of straw


    40. his cards and scooping up the little mound of straw

    41. of straw bits, ‘I will use to have a good time in


    42. The announcement from George at the Council meeting, after his presumptuous offer of assistance as 'adviser' for dubious civil improvements, and that he would then 'push forward' to become a hotelier, as a model for the rest of them, was the last straw


    43. I cut out block after block with a saw, bundled each into straw and greased burlap, added more straw then nestled each into its own hide bag


    44. and foot and lying on a straw pallet


    45. Salamander lay curled on his straw


    46. ’ Chrissie put in, relieved to be presented with a straw she could grasp at


    47. I should think that our Andy’s disappearance was the last straw


    48. She could see him now … jerkily, returning to his seat at the table … and then, he’d just sort of imploded mentally, as though Andy’s defection was the terminal straw in the train of disasters which comprised this ill-fated project


    49. After each couple courses were fitted in this manner, his father would take straw and pack it into the spaces made by the studs and the two wall sides


    50. destroying their nests in the straw












































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    Synonyms for "straw"

    drinking straw straw pale yellow wheat chaff husk shuck stalk stubble strew

    "straw" definitions

    plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder


    material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds


    a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white


    a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth


    cover or provide with or as if with straw


    spread by scattering (


    of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored