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Sentence count:203+16Posted:2017-02-20Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: chaffdrinking strawhuskpale yellowshuckstalkstrewstubbleSimilar words: strawberrystrapstrayastraystrainstratumstrangerestrainMeaning: [strɔː]  n. 1. plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder 2. material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds 3. a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white 4. a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth. v. 1. cover or provide with or as if with straw 2. spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic). adj. of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored. 
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31 I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat.
32 I don't care a straw for your opinions.
33 The barn was full of bales of straw.
34 May I have a straw for my drink?
35 Mattress are filled with feathers, cotton, or straw.
36 The stable boy bedded down the horse with straw.
37 The straw mattresses are airing there.
38 The horses were crunching their straw at their manger.
39 The bumblebee sizzed right under his straw hat.
40 Glass should be packed in straw.
41 Why don't you drink your milkshake through a straw?
42 He drank the milk through a straw.
43 They bunched straw into sheaves.
44 He thatched his hut with straw.
45 The cage should be lined with straw.
46 Servants slept on straw pallets thrown on the floor.
47 The rat hid in the straw.
48 The floors are covered with woven straw mats.
49 Making me work late on Friday was the last straw.
50 I drew the short straw and had to clean the toilets.
51 He was accused by his opponents of being a man of straw and lacking in decisiveness.
52 She was blowing bubbles in her milk with a straw.
53 I took a straw poll among my colleagues to find out how many can use chopsticks.
54 The force of his fall was broken by the straw mats.
55 She nestled the eggs safely in the straw in Jim's basket.
56 He seems to be looking for a man of straw to belabour.
57 A farmer was burning straw, the yellow billows of smoke spiralling lazily upward.
58 The idea that national identity will be lost as a result of European integration is just a man of straw which he is wasting his time fighting.sentencedict.com
59 Giles drew the short straw, and has to give us a talk this morning.
60 She described the theatre's closure as "a straw in the wind" as companies faced up to the realities of life after the lottery.
More similar words: strawberrystrapstrayastraystrainstratumstrangerestrainabstractstrainedstrategydistractstraightstrayingstrategicregistraraustraliaconstrainfrustrateostracizeorchestraostracismprostratestraitenedmagistratedistraughtconstraintdire straitsstraightenillustrate
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