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Meanings of husk in anglès
català
espellofar Sinònims
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
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.
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.
Motif resembling string of buds, wheat husks, or bell flowers.
Usage of husk in anglès
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.
6
This is nothing but cocoa husk, washed and then boiled in milk.
7
He was rapidly sloughing the dry husk that limited Greene tribe thinking.
8
She could look up at the jabbering husk with nothing but pity.
9
Brushes, nets and other domestic articles are also manufactured from the husk.
10
So I look, first, at the husk of apparent harshness and severity.
11
A burned empty husk of a Greathall emerged from the mists ahead.
12
Maybe the Valg princes had devoured her, turning her into a husk.
13
On a large husk put several tablespoonfuls of chopped meat with olives.
14
Peel husk of the garlic and push each clove into the slots.
15
All of it drained away in moments, leaving him an empty husk.
16
They hollowed me out until I was only a senseless parchment husk.
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