Synonym: chaff, drinking straw, husk, pale yellow, shuck, stalk, strew, stubble. Similar words: strawberry, strap, stray, astray, strain, stratum, strange, restrain. Meaning: [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.
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. 
Random good picture Not show
91 But if that was what Adams wanted, well, he was willing to clutch at any straw.
92 Barley straw is soft and palatable, and is widely used as bulk feed for beef cattle.
93 Likewise the drinking straw would have to regulate its volume no matter how hard one sucked.
94 This latter task was not as trivial as may be supposed in a society where wood and straw huts burnt down regularly.
95 Then she had been lying in the nursery rocking chair as stuffed with straw as Andy and Teddy were full of beans.
96 If it is not straw, it is imported coal from foreign lands.
97 If you use straw as bedding for farm animals, generally speaking you improve the welfare of those animals.
98 More options include a white patent-leather tote bag and a big straw hat or scarf tied a la Audrey Hepburn.
99 Jimmy was bare-headed and Dad wore a straw boater tipped over his eyes.
100 Oat straw, although variable in quality, generally makes good bulk fodder for cattle.
101 Loose orange heaps, recently dropped, steaming, that bristled with straw.
102 There are numerous harvest customs throughout this country and abroad, and some involve burning the straw effigy of such a figure.
103 Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.
104 She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.
105 She nodded and pushed the straw under her mask, sipping the champagne.
106 Put the end of the straw in the bag so that it extends approximately two inches inside the bag.
107 The man with the straw hat put it on his head and produced a lighted cigar from nowhere.
108 The average cost is ￡15 for travelling expenses plus ￡5 for the straw of semen.
109 She was wearing black with a black straw hat with a deep brim like a laurel wreath.
110 Her black straw hat, secured by a beaded hatpin, had seen its best days long ago.
111 The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits.
112 Mr Bean was opening out bales of straw making deep beds.
113 The council decided the cost of administering the licensing scheme should fall to the cereal growers who burned straw.
114 The shape is made by tying on bundles of straw, and the garments help.
115 Exposed the original brick walls, hung lamps with straw bonnets for shades, put in a small mahogany bar.
116 The boats are made mostly of rice straw, woven and bound together.
117 They include using straw to make compost, paper ... and even chocolate cake.
118 She pictured a straw boater and a bicycle and as her smile spread he abruptly faced her.
119 But he paid for phone banks, mailings,[http://sentencedict.com/straw.html] transportation and registration fees for his straw poll supporters.
120 And as they get ready for the Big One, the title decider, the lads will clutch at every available straw.
More similar words: strawberry, strap, stray, astray, strain, stratum, strange, restrain, abstract, strained, strategy, distract, straight, straying, strategic, registrar, australia, constrain, frustrate, ostracize, orchestra, ostracism, prostrate, straitened, magistrate, distraught, constraint, dire straits, straighten, illustrate.