Similar words: flamboyant, akimbo, symbol, embody, book, boom, boot, symbolic. Meaning: [bæm'buː] n. 1. the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles 2. woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture.
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31. Like all bamboo buds, the flowers exude no fragrance.
32. Voice over Bamboo grows at an amazing pace.
33. In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.
34. Mark lashed the windmill to the inevitable bamboo pole,(http://sentencedict.com/bamboo.html) and we tried propping it near the stern.
35. Even more hopeful was the fact that, after five months' immersion, the bamboo had not lost its buoyancy.
36. We were happy to see that the bamboo pole looked to be in excellent condition.
37. But the bamboo sailing rafts needed less than a foot of water to float, and came gliding right into the shallows.
38. Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.
39. After breakfast the male inmates went outside to the prison yard for exercises, which included jumping over long bamboo sticks.
40. We did not have a blowgun on Hsu Fu but we soon had a bamboo bow and arrow.
41. My spirits were dampened very quickly. At breakfast a short length of bamboo was seen floating away behind the raft.
42. Yesterday we had replaced yet another of the bamboo battens in the mainsail.
43. From afar, or even up close, the bridge is nothing more than a thin, unsteady shimmer of bamboo.
44. The table was made of bamboo, lacquered scarlet, and the top was painted with gilded peonies.
45. The bamboo wall looked like a piece of furniture that had been ravaged by woodworm.
46. That evening I discovered another, very pleasant use for bamboo.
47. Whatever, bamboo is versatile and appealing and is a great material to rediscover as we enter the new millennium.
48. The hostages had been kept in mud and bamboo huts in a mosquito-infested swamp area.
49. Stuck into the shavings were half a dozen long, slender tubes of bamboo.
50. The raft shifted uneasily on the sea, the bamboo stiffeners in the sails clattering on the masts.
51. The mist was heavy and noisy waterfalls splashed down through pipe thickets of green bamboo.
52. All we had accomplished was to stop the bamboo floating away after the last of its rattan lashings had snapped.
53. A hard dirt path leads into the village past a cluster of small bamboo huts.
54. Bamboo looks great with sisal or sea grass carpeting and other natural-grass wall coverings.
55. We ate greens and bamboo shoots, picked in the jungle, and occasionally villagers would give us a bit of meat.
56. The reason, Yunus discovered, was that she had to borrow money to buy the bamboo from a trader.
57. She bit down on her garlic, which cracked coldly, like bamboo being sliced by a knife.
58. I carried the green-bean casserole to the dinner table, placing it on a bamboo trivet.
59. The gorgeous canopies have rotted, the bamboo supports have snapped.
60. It includes handmade umbrellas with bamboo poles and struts, and handpainted weatherproof cotton canopies.