How To Use Last straw In A Sentence
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She's always been rude to me, but it was the last straw when she started insulting my mother.
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The sight of crooks demanding fortunes for prized tickets was the last straw.
The Sun
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‘Whom do they think they are codding - hitting young people buying a first home is the last straw especially when prices are escalating at an enormous rate,’ he added.
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For a writer, being panned by a critic can be the last straw, as you nervously bring your inky pride and joy into public view after umpteen years of sweat and sacrifice.
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It's the last straw.
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The derisory pay offer was the last straw for workers.
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It was the last straw after 24 hours holding so much in his head.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the last straw after 24 hours holding so much in his head.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four were taken out of the motor ambulances dead this week; the jolting is the last straw for the worst ones; it can't possibly be helped, "but it seems a pity.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
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He'd broken his promise again, and it was the last straw.
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The last straw was when a flock of sparrows appeared making the noise of bursting crackers.
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It was just about the last straw when three ducks came to live in my garden fish pond.
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The abolition of nobility was the last straw for many, and the military mutinies of that year produced an exodus of disgusted officers.
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It was the last straw, but Martin gripped the arms of his chair and talked and listened for half an hour.
Chapter 46
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Mr Brown said the planned charges were the last straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.
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For him the Church's decision to allow the ordination of women had been the last straw.
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The sight of crooks demanding fortunes for prized tickets was the last straw.
The Sun
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These insults… his contumacy… this behavior was the last straw!
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That piece of double-dealing was the last straw.
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He'd broken his promise again, and it was the last straw.
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After asking for yet more Government money and then considering paying dividends to shareholders, this is the last straw.
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It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
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After three nights with no sleep and the fear of losing everything, your senseless, stupid act was the last straw.
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If you only hunt for huge HORNS, best you stay at home, as the killing is the last straw and the hunt is over.
The Mysterious Case of the Shrinking Elk Head
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When she looked back to her breakfast, the last strawberry in he fruit salad was gone.
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The last straw for me came when I was ushered into a plexiglas cell in full view of the terminal, given an intimate frisk, then told to unbutton the pants, and had the guard stick his hand right down to the genitals.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Affirmative Action and Racial Profiling Revisited
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The last straw comes when three old Russian ladies snub my invitation to join our flotilla, dog-paddling away as if no one had ever offered them a slug of beer through a ten-foot hose.
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Of course the damn thing wouldn't start and that was the last straw.
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Yes. This is the last straw.
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It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks.
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The frank smile that told of his lordship's enjoyment of her discomfiture was the last straw.
Out of the Primitive
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Yes. This is the last straw.
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This Wright thing being choreographed by a Clinton campaigner is the last straw.
Poll of polls: Obama losing ground
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It's bad enough that there are thousands of real urban planner willing to give James Howard Kunstler his 15 minutes of fame, but to call him an urban planner is the last straw.
Vermont and Secession, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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It was a tame enough guess; but to Jackson, in his unhinged state, it seemed like the last straw.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Mary's grunting continuously annoyed her husband, and her mother's staying with them was the last straw.
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Making me work late on Friday was the last straw.
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The British government built workhouses for the down and out of the time and when the great famine of 1847 took its toll, that was the last straw for the down-trodden Irish poor.
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Sending in bailiffs was the last straw.