straw
Example Sentences
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“There’s the straw man of, ‘Well, it failed at this one thing, therefore it’s all stupid.’”
“The GPU is sitting there sucking on a straw for more compute. Everyone wants their clusters to be bigger, but the physics of copper is limiting how big they can get.”
It was as though I was being sucked through a straw.
From Literature
Media reports in Singapore described a 19-year-old woman who died after inhaling three pearls while trying to suck through a partially blocked straw.
From Science Daily
“I mean, who drinks out of a straw when you get past the age of 10, right?” he says, jokingly.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
