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Meanings of stalk in inglês
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
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.
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 stalk in inglês
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.
6
Second, because after too much damage nobody bothers to even stalk you.
7
The best fiber amounts to about 75 per cent of the stalk.
8
We've got a major stalk incursion, grid Echo Five-threestalks so far.
9
One end of the stalk is held in ebonite forceps and vibrated.
10
After the leaves are stripped from the stalk the process known as
11
But the free stalk is too risky, not controlled enough for him.
12
But my stalk eyes saw Loren look at me with fresh hope.
13
What do you think I'm going to do, stalk you and gloat?'
14
And he had already begun to bite the inevitable stalk of grass.
15
He entered a cool lotus stalk that grew in the Manas lake.
16
The fruit is really the thickened, succulent stalk of the kidney-shaped nut.
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Stalk through the time
Stalk across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common