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straw

noun as in hay

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For years, the top complaint about the product was that people lost the little red straw that came with each can.

They’re like high-end veggie straws you get in the snack aisle.

For a surface with boundary, such as a straw with its two boundary circles, each cut must begin and end on a boundary.

She was a tough act to follow, and the guy who drew the short straw was Garth Brooks.

From Time

Such defiance from the tech giants was a final straw for Museveni.

From Quartz

Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.

Exactly one month after the first straw goat was erected in Gävle, it was mysteriously burned to a crisp.

I thanked him, sat down on the sofa, and sipped it through the straw.

Hana seeks refuge from the buzzing lights of Otome Road in a nearby café and makes another swirl with her straw.

She slowly moves her straw through the whipped cream in her designer latte and looks up.

Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.

In fact, so much of her smooth brow as could be seen under a broad-brimmed straw hat was wrinkled in a decided frown.

He put on his big straw hat, and taking his umbrella from the stand in the hall, followed the lady in black, never overtaking her.

The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to straw, such as: ensilage, fodder, and silage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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