Synonyms
Examples for "straw"
Examples for "straw"
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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.
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The 'award' was decided by a straw poll taken by The Economist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
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There he alighted in a stubble field and let the boy dismount.
7
Plowing under the header stubble returns all this material to the soil.
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I loved the quiet-colored fields of stubble and the hazy water meadows.
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Moreover, the bulk of the stubble is carbon taken from the air.
10
We had to look the part: no stubble on the car-showroom salesmen.
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Siddle stirred uneasily, but the others were still as partridges in stubble.
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In the fall, usually, this stubble is plowed under and gradually decays.
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He imagined that he heard stealthy footsteps in the grass stubble outside.
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Enter the slowly immersive stubble growth and later the probable leather-jacket-shaped rebrand.
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Jeremy nodded, rubbing his four-day stubble like a detective on the case.
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Well-to-do people stopped their vehicles and walked out into the new stubble.
