STRAW in a Sentence
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157 example sentences for STRAW, such as:
1. Many straws may bind an elephant.
2. Drowning man will catch at a straw.
3. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
4. A straw shows which way the wind blows.
5. He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
2. Drowning man will catch at a straw.
3. A drowning man will catch at a straw.
4. A straw shows which way the wind blows.
5. He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of STRAW
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straw
n. a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
v. cover or provide with or as if with straw
Classic Sentence: (144 in 10 pages)
1 This she knew would be a straw that would break the backs of Pittypat and Melanie.
2 Not marrying the young lady, of whom you have probably heard, was merely the last straw.
3 Scarlett caught up her wide straw bonnet from the console table and jammed it on her head.
4 She looked at the lank figure leaning against the porch column, chewing a straw.
5 This crushing news brought by Will, coming on top of a year of back-breaking work and hope deferred, was the last straw.
6 She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life.
7 He threw his battered straw hat into the back of the wagon, clucked to the horse and they moved off.
8 "But your heart warn't broken," Will said calmly and, picking up a straw from the bottom of the wagon, he put it in his mouth and chewed slowly.
9 "Oh, yes, I do in a way," he said removing the straw and surveying it as if it were highly interesting.
10 "Well, that's yours and Ashley's business," said Will and put the straw back in his mouth.
11 Scarlett thought of Will, lank, unimpressive, mild, eternally chewing a straw, his whole appearance deceptively devoid of energy, like that of most Crackers.
12 I've gotten mighty tired of hearing people criticize you, darling," Melanie said, "and this is the last straw and I'm going to do something about it.
13 But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.
14 Mounds of straw, and wheat-stacks like bee-hives, stood out in startling rose and gold, and the green-tufted stubble glistened.
15 He had tried to please her, then, had touched her by sheepishly wearing a colored band on his straw hat.
Example Sentence:
1 The fraud depended on hundreds of bank accounts being opened on behalf of straw men.
2 He that liveth in court dieth upon straw.
3 A straw shows which way the wind blows.
4 A drowning man will catch at a straw.
5 Drowning man will catch at a straw.
6 A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth.
7 They generly had on yellow straw hats most as wide as an umbrella, but didn't wear no coats nor waistcoats, they called one another Bill, and Buck, and Hank, and Joe, and Andy, and talked lazy and drawly, and used considerable many cuss words.
8 The bird is building a nest of straw and twigs.
9 I use $7 gas-station straw special, with the cruddy band and attendant glue picked off.
10 Bush, along with Walker, Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina and others, has committed to attend a conservative cattle call in Atlanta hosted by RedState founder Erick Erickson that is concurrent to the straw poll.
11 Homes are built of weaker materials, including straw and corrugated steel, and may have had little stamina against Pam's raging winds.
12 Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
13 Many straws may bind an elephant.