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Meanings of chaff in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "straw"
Examples for "straw"
1
High in silica content, paddy straw cannot be used to feed animals.
2
The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
3
The Urchin was greatly interested in the baboon rummaging in his straw.
4
I have approximately FOUR months to transform myself into said drinking-straw shape.
5
The 'award' was decided by a straw poll taken by The Economist.
1
I stalk the area outside Wuher's cantina and hear a fight within.
2
It's fresh, picked right off the stalk a couple of days ago.
3
Add the lemongrass stalk and continue to cook gently for two minutes.
4
The Buda Kale somewhat resembles the Purple; but the stalk is shorter.
5
Hanna almost choked on a broccoli stalk, certain she'd heard Ruby wrong.
1
The scratch of stubble told me that, yes, time was still moving.
2
The storekeeper had two days' worth of stubble on his pointy chin.
3
The wheat stubble swept on up to a knoll in the distance.
4
She touched his jaw and felt the rough stubble of new growth.
5
And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
1
I wonder if that works? Not surprisingly, coconut husk is great tinder.
2
It was a spark of poetry: strange flower in such a husk.
3
But it may be that the husk is taken from the kernel.
4
He must not let the husk dull his eye to the kernel.
5
The heavy husk fell on my back, a pointed, superheated, squishy weight.
1
Then I had her shuck a lobster and she lit right up.
2
He could not shuck his code, or sneak out of his era.
3
The rustling sound of the corn-shuck mattress continued most of the night.
4
Jimmy Hinton pushed Nate to one side with a hard shoulder shuck.
5
Something in his voice made her sit up and shuck the sarcasm.
Usage of chaff in anglès
1
He wanted to focus on real cases, not chaff from the website.
2
It is the only momentous fact; all others are chaff and rags.
3
The power of the biggest boss is like chaff in your hands.
4
His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine.
5
The difficulty, of course, is in sorting the wheat from the chaff.
6
A man up from the midlands asked: Can you hear that chiff-chaff?
7
It is clear the chaff will at once fall into the chaff-receiver.
8
This threshing out of the chaff gives the State a certain dignity.
9
He is nothing but a tease; what he says is only chaff.
10
The Indians fled, scattering right and left like chaff before the wind.
11
Depend upon it, that General Cromwell will scatter that army like chaff.
12
Wounded men, past their first agony, chaff each other in the hospitals.
13
When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.
14
Note the self-applied test of courage which swept away so much chaff.
15
Here the Bachelor of Arts paused, and a shower of chaff began.
16
The dropships scattered chaff in their wake, climbing to avoid the rockets.
About this term
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Chaff through the time
Chaff across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common