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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61. At seventy-five feet Sea Dragon had been larger than Hsu Fu and a much more substantial vessel than a flimsy bamboo raft.
62. Sailing a bamboo raft through the late autumn and early winter storms was definitely perilous.
63. A bare bamboo washing-pole, angled like the bowsprit of a yacht, projects above the street.sentence dictionary
64. It was too difficult to pass strips of bamboo right through all three layers and pull them sufficiently tight.
65. In fact, a good deal of daily life was spent perched on the bamboo matting on top of the cabins.
66. But the constant damp and rain meant that the cockpit floor of pressed bamboo strips was spongy and soggy to the touch.
67. The large stack of giant bamboo which had once been piled on the beach had vanished, absorbed into the raft.
68. But they were not looking out for a small, insignificant speck of a slow-moving bamboo raft.
69. Bamboo flooring is gaining popularity as an alternative to hardwood floors.
70. Bamboo pieces also suit rooms painted white and in shades of green, browns and neutrals.
71. Flanking a canal, it was enclosed by a bamboo fence, and neat rows of thatched-roof huts had been laid out.
72. The men at its bank are cutting bamboo, hastily assembling rafts, pushing their women and children into the stream.
73. Inside the cabins all our clothes, the bamboo-slat floor, the bamboo framework were wet to the touch.
74. Their actual digestive system is that of a carnivore and so bamboo is an unlikely foodstuff to choose.
75. In some spots, villagers were building cinder-block houses, a sturdy if ugly improvement over their flimsy bamboo shacks.
76. It mildewed towels, made sleeping bags clammy, soaked the pressed bamboo of the cockpit floor so it was unpleasantly slimy.
77. At one time they had to dive out of the bamboo hut in which they were sheltering when a gunfight erupted.
78. There were oleanders and an untidy tumble of bamboo dwellings.
79. The geography of evil: tunnels and bamboo thickets and mud huts and graves.
80. Frustrated designers constructed elaborate beach retreats with driftwood, bamboo poles, and Laura Ashley sheets.
81. The road passed between stands of tall green bamboo, as though entering a tunnel.
82. Bamboo placemats on the table complement both contemporary and traditional place settings.
83. Scientists suggested that the disappearance of the panda's traditional bamboo forest habitat had forced the herbivore to turn meat-eater.
84. At the foot of the steps is a shack made of bamboo and planks of wood.
85. The seawater flowed up through the cracks between the bamboo poles, and the wave crest traveled right over the raft.
86. At breakfast a short length of bamboo was seen floating away behind the raft.
87. Place a nest of bamboo shoots and mangetout in the centre of each plate.
88. Add onion, bamboo shoots, ginger, water chestnuts and boy choy and cook 1-2 minutes.
89. Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it.
90. In short, he was ideally suited for long-distance sailing on an increasingly waterlogged bamboo raft.