Use "straw" in a sentence

1. this is the last straw! You lied about being sick! You lied about Grandpa being sick!"

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2. An OLD MAN, bent back, barefoot, wearing ragged clothes and a beat-up straw hat, sits astride a donkey in the middle of the road

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3. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on

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4. debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed

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5. Her kindness is the last straw

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6. ’ She instructed, directing a straw between the swollen lips of the recumbent woman

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7. Straw: It symbolizes success and wealth, followed by the jealousy of people around you; a straw hat shows modesty

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8. The darkness was viscous, dripping slowly onto flakes of straw that lay rotting on the puddled floor

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9. He tried to remember; revolution, committees and sections, the great debates and the huge, towering hopes that lead all men down to a straw bed

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10. straw in the other corner and simple seating arrangements

11. straw rug in front of the fire,

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12. area was surrounded by straw and piles of what appeared to be

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13. Ethereead got up from the bed of straw and went over the fire

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14. and the smell urine on straw

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15. of a man that stands on straw ground in the sale room

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16. His scent, the scent of straw bedded animals,

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17. She was sucking hot whisky through a straw

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18. That was the straw that broke poor Archibald's back

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19. He wore a wide-brimmed straw hat and his straw slippers

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20. After all of the hardships of the last few months, this was the final straw

21. Chattering to herself, she arranges the food on the table for us and offers to take our boots downstairs to dry them off with straw in them

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22. The final straw for Helen Roach came one Saturday morning when Lucy announced to her mother during a now rare and troubled family breakfast that she had entered a competition advertised in her favourite music magazine, the prize being the chance to meet the mystery singer

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23. … poor child … she’s been so courageous … this must have been the last straw emotionally … the crying she never did for her parents … perhaps it is better this way

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24. covered chin really had been the last straw

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25. Order for Karen was probably the straw that broke the camel’s

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26. Thick pads of straw woven into long mats had been placed about the fire pit and piled high off the ground

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27. Tightly hand woven mats were placed on this straw and then their bedding was placed on top of the mats

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28. There was a wooden pail, and a small wooden pallet, maybe six feet long and two feet wide, filled with straw

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29. By the time the sergeant was done untying her bindings, they returned with large handfuls of fresh straw

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30. In spite of the fresh straw the place still stank and it was so hot she was sweaty

31. all of the hardships of the last few months, this was the final straw

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32. She spent the night in another police station, again with fresh straw and decent food

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33. If that was where she was, it could be worse but she wasn’t going to call it perfect, even if there were no bugs in the straw

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34. She was glad there was plenty of straw around to absorb the sound

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35. “And my depriving her of Red Hawk’s affection is the camel-breaking straw,” she finished

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36. was always more to do in the fields: the stacking of straw to dry in

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37. the sun, loading wagons with sheaves of straw and the building of

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38. He is going to call his bar The Straw Donkey, a paean to millions of package trips and the souvenirs that litter lofts throughout his homeland

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39. They played, instead, with small pieces of straw

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40. his cards and scooping up the little mound of straw

41. of straw bits, ‘I will use to have a good time in

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42. The announcement from George at the Council meeting, after his presumptuous offer of assistance as 'adviser' for dubious civil improvements, and that he would then 'push forward' to become a hotelier, as a model for the rest of them, was the last straw

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43. I cut out block after block with a saw, bundled each into straw and greased burlap, added more straw then nestled each into its own hide bag

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44. and foot and lying on a straw pallet

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45. Salamander lay curled on his straw

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46. ’ Chrissie put in, relieved to be presented with a straw she could grasp at

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47. I should think that our Andy’s disappearance was the last straw

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48. She could see him now … jerkily, returning to his seat at the table … and then, he’d just sort of imploded mentally, as though Andy’s defection was the terminal straw in the train of disasters which comprised this ill-fated project

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49. After each couple courses were fitted in this manner, his father would take straw and pack it into the spaces made by the studs and the two wall sides

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50. destroying their nests in the straw

51. The gun spills from his hand and he hears a straw donkey braying in one last brilliant shaft of sunlight

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52. Mind you, people like Sally, with all the maternal responsibilities of any era yet none of the perks, so to speak, do seem to have drawn the short straw

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53. an older man wearing a straw hat

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54. straw and replacing it with a fresh cover

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55. rats scuttling through the rotting straw in the corner and

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56. that the straw hadn't been changed since his first visit and

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57. through the darkness to the bags of straw in the corner of

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58. and sipped his beer through a long straw making sure that his hands were occupied

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59. When they’d finished refilling each stall with fresh straw, they moved on to cleaning up her milking facility, so it would be ready to start operations the next week

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60. Cardinal was the final straw

61. pink suit, sat with his legs elegantly crossed, and sipped from a straw that went

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62. and wore a wide-brimmed hat of straw to protect his head

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63. Quickly removing the straw from her hair, Emma apologized

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64. establishment Jean had ever stayed in – the straw on the

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65. splashed water on his face and pulled stray straw out of

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66. It might be the final straw to get her to send for some professional psychiatrists

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67. Lifting a glass from the nightstand, Beth pressed a straw to her lips, and responded

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68. Locals make the ‘panama hat’ from plaited toquil a straw

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69. When she said good night, having filled his water-jug and shaken up his straw for him, Toad was very much the same happy, self- satisfied animal that he had been of old

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70. He sang a little song or two, of the sort he used to sing at his dinner-parties, curled himself up in the straw, and had an excellent night's rest and the pleasantest of dreams

71. who had apparently drawn the short straw and was forced

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72. If this be true, for I pretend not to affirm it, it is as if a corn farmer expected to defray the expense of his cultivation with the chaff and the straw, and that the grain should be all clear profit

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73. sleep on a bed of straw, even though as Abbot he was

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74. with enough space for about half a dozen beds of straw –

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75. A stuffed straw man except for the screaming and rolling about

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76. Apparently this was the last straw for

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77. There were four walls of red stone, so close together she had just enough room for her body to lay flat on a bed of straw

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78. She let her halo fall, and calmly sat on the straw mat, waiting

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79. She noticed there were bits of dirty straw caught in his hair

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80. lay on straw beds along the wall – curtained off for

81. corner with reasonably fresh straw

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82. on her straw mattress

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83. That was the final straw

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84. Nerissa suspected it would mean her life if she did them the favor of emptying their bags onto the filthy straw

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85. It went on for so long, her knees began to add blood to the reddened straw

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86. Then she piled straw

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87. baskets, then lay them out on mats woven of straw

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88. I was calmly chewing on a long straw of dry grass while Morty was casually cracking open sunflower seeds, our thoughts having been silenced and whisked away by the awe-inspiring beauty of Mother Nature’s creation that had completely enveloped us

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89. But not sold off, she gathered, because there were fresh droppings in the straw

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90. That night, she didn’t simply kneel in the straw, but stepped toward Tragus and eagerly

91. covered with bits of straw, but obviously healthy

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92. Though Nerissa would have been happy to sleep in the common hall, with its clean straw

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93. A straw appeared in it

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94. Alex swallowed thickly, and Psyche reached over to hand her a cup of water with a straw so she could take a slow drink

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95. It was slow, sluggish, like it was trying to push honey through a straw

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96. When everything was completely packed, Elizabeth handed my straw bag to me

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97. Joseph helped her make a pallet on the straw

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