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Meanings of shuck in English
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
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
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.
Usage of shuck in English
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.
6
Darkies moving in, flatbed trucks loaded down with corn-shuck mattresses and pickaninnies.
7
And tell your shuck friends to calm down- Iwasn'tgonna hurt you.
8
Maybe I sound like a shuck, but it gives me some hope.
9
But you're gonna do it with us, not with these shuck Cranks.
10
Oh, Barbara, please shuck the hide off that letter and read it.
11
Leastways, I don't see no chance now ter get shuck o' 'em.
12
I kind of had to shuck and jive my way around certain situations.
13
Just tell us what you know and I'll find you some shuck aspirin.
14
Jorge, you scout a way for us to get to your shuck Berg.
15
We build fences all day and kill hogs and shuck corn dat night.
16
I'd rather go on and shuck oysters like Pauline Isabel and her folks.
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Shuck through the time
Shuck across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common