How To Use Raw In A Sentence

She was carrying her overnight case and a basket of dried flowers-statice, strawflower, and immortelle in the pastel colors referred to in seed catalogues as "art shades": fawn, apricot, mauve, and pale yellow. Incubus
She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
And if you can develop a machine to look for the needle in the haystack and what you come out with from having the machine sift through the haystack is a box of straw, where maybe the needle's in there and maybe a few bonus needles, then that's a whole lot better than having humans try to sift through a haystack. Wired Top Stories
Thus, the power of drawing iron is one of the ideas of the complex one of that substance we call a loadstone; and a power to be so drawn is a part of the complex one we call iron: which powers pass for inherent qualities in those subjects. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once. The Sun
For a picnic, chill the strawberries and cream separately, take them along in a cool box, and assemble them on site.
The players were top drawer. The Sun
Take the maximum draw weight of the bow required and multiply this by a factor of 5.
Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
I'd like to withdraw 1000 dollars from my savings account and put it in my check account.
Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.
The money is commonly laundered via cash deposits to friends or family members' bank accounts and is quickly withdrawn to be paid to the gang leaders. Times, Sunday Times
The commander-in-chief was given 36 hours to secure a withdrawal of his troops from the combat zone.
Their last nine league games have brought four wins, four defeats and a draw. The Sun
This is one of the main drawbacks of having a business carried on by a company.
This type of power - a culture that radiates outward and a market that draws inward - rests on pull, not on push; on acceptance, not on imposition.
Aliquots were withdrawn at the indicated times, the viable titer was determined, and the percentage of survivors was calculated.
Calis, and so on the mondaie following, [Sidenote: Iohn Hall executed.] he was drawne from the Tower to Tiburne, and there hanged, bowelled, headed, and quartered: his head being sent to Calis there to be set vp, where the duke was murthered. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
It was taxing to repeat the performance, and took nearly twice as long to finish drawing the sigils and runes.
Her hands, drawn to the keyboard, floated into a long appoggiatura. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
Big Brother will now know every financial tidbit about you, every ATM withdrawl, account deposit, creditcard charge, what you bought .... Senate's Wall Street bill in homestretch
Drawing an ultrasonic syringe from a cabinet in the wall, she slapped it against Kohlberg's arm and pressed.
At what age can you start drawing your pension ?
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
The move would draw flak, but would be defensible. Times, Sunday Times
One way to draw this is to start with an equilateral triangle, which has three sides of equal length.
Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth.
The students are drawn from very mixed social backgrounds.
I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
The straw that broke the camel's back was "jete" - which I said was a ballet term, from the French. Archive 2009-01-01
Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
Anne took a tea-towel from the dresser drawer.
I throw a suitcase on the bed and pop it open, and begin to stuff clothes into drawers and hang them in the wardrobe.
Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
If you think baroque is all about curlicues and foofaraws, Rome is the place to learn otherwise.
To a large extent the life you have depends on who your parents were; it's just the luck of the biological draw.
And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
Unless you return the form within seven days, the offer will be withdrawn.
Retirement is likely to move from an abrupt halt at a fixed age to a more gradual withdrawal, with the abolition of compulsory retirement ages. Times, Sunday Times
The favourite for the interdominion grand final will be decided by Monday's barrier draw.
She could feel underclothes, linen drawers, silken chemise, a farthingale with its stiffened hoops. Ill Met By Moonlight
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
The boundary between probity and fraud was much more difficult to draw in this area.
So the image of the bespectacled fuddy-duddy in his dusty library is a straw man: I would hazard that print publishing experts are actually on the cutting edge of new media. Publishing’s not as out of it as you think
Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
Having spent years working and living in London and across Eastern Europe, the solitude and beauty of the landscape offered a powerful draw.
Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
It doesn't know about quick draws, ropes or stoned partners.
We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
In the next level of technique not only does the nage initiate action to draw out uke's movement, but he uses the energy of his action to lead the response given him by uke.
On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
His dark eyes stared back, full of rawness, honesty and uncompromising sincerity.
I chanced on this old photograph in his drawer.
A reduction in the days that vessels can spend at sea means trawlers fish harder near their home ports. Times, Sunday Times
Science finds that a surface tension on the water can draw the boats together, like toy boats in a bathtub.
Finally he pulled out a shirt from a drawer in his dresser.
He signed his works with a wild strawberry. Times, Sunday Times
[The site] consists of 'crudities': pieces of raw experience, regularly uploaded ... it aims at developing an extended version of the conventional weblog, one that allows users to upload visual input such as (streaming -) video-files and pictures as easily as texts. Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
But shortly afterwards they wrote to him informing him that the job offer had been withdrawn.
Designed with grace and precision by Portuguese architect Bak Gordon, this modern home located in the heart of Pousos, is all about smooth and simple design that draws from the modern architecture principles of using simple cubical structures. How To Create a Minimalist Home
The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
A picket was organised last week after receivers Robson Rhodes refused to withdraw redundancy notices issued to 67 staff.
There was a patch of raw skin on my back where the sun had burnt it.
It has been frequently asked if the existing and accepted formula for determining in advance the amount of refined sugar that may be extracted from either beets, _masse cuite_ or raw sugar, is to be considered exact, without special allowance being made for raffinose. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
A subsequent kerfuffle (rather drawn out) sounding not unlike a fist fight interspersed with successive shards of glass falling. BEHINDLINGS
People can and do draw sustenance from many sources.
The club extend their deep gratitude to all who support the weekly draws.
But the city nixed both ideas, which sent everybody back to the drawing board.
Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
Sancho resigns himself and agrees to the task on the condition that he is not required to draw blood with these whippings and that gentle lashes count too.
The thing buried in the knicker drawer could end up on the coffee table. Times, Sunday Times
This so-called "truncation" of the collection process calls for a redefinition of the duties incumbent on the holder and collecting and drawee banks and have been specifically addressed in the proposed legislation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material.
Among techniques clearly described to us is his camerawork, which is presented during an early description of the symptoms of anxiety: nausea, shaking, loss of balance and distorted vision. Mike says ANTI-CHRIST is shocking, disgusting, frightening and will leave you feeling uncomfortable. But that’s kind of the point! | Obsessed With Film
Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
The drawer had been emptied of its contents.
A Serious Man" draw from their writer-directors 'personal histories, while "Nine" reimagines Fellini's semiautobiographically impressionistic "8 as a musical. Variety.com
He let down a bucket into the well to draw water.
Biscuit base filled with lemon scented Ilalian ricotta cheese, decorated with strawberries and red currants.
To neatly convey the choice of sizes in the case of such items as drawer pulls, the entire range might be lined up on the page in descending order.
The auction house decided to withdraw from the sale when its December 1990 contract with Lord Northampton came up for renewal.
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
A multiparty legal committee has rejected draft laws on mine ownership and is set to send other so-called "indigenization" rules back to the drawing board. Zimbabwe Lawmakers Reject ‘Indigenization’ Regulations
If you want the greatest nutritional value from your corn, how should you eat it: raw, quickly steamed or thoroughly cooked?
Gesenius considers this equivalent with "cohabit;" and from this single passage draws the sense which he assigns to [Hebrew: 'iyzebel] This seems rather far-fetched. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
But it was always redrawn again for the next stages along the road. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
It has lockable drawers, leather-lined jewellery trays and a cheval mirror. Times, Sunday Times
The spots are designed not only to draw in racing enthusiasts, but also to built brand awareness for the resurgent manufacturer, which positions itself on its race-track heritage and Italian design.
Once his periodic table had been drawn, these blanks were suddenly obvious. Times, Sunday Times
More than 200 weedkillers, mainly lawn treatments, are being withdrawn from the market after manufacturers chose not to submit them for EU safety tests.
We've had a spec drawn up for a new bathroom.
The withdrawal of troops from the area has created a security vacuum which will need to be filled.
If implemented, Straw's curfew will allow adults to evade taking responsibility for the welfare of future generations.
The undergarments included stockings, petticoats, drawers, and a corset.
These 60 drawings show Picasso's work on paper with pencil, charcoal, ink and gouache.
The sale is part of Unilever's withdrawal from many of its agribusiness operations.
Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
It becomes more and more difficult to reduce raw emissions, especially for heavy and high-performance vehicles.
Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes. Timaeus
Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
The twin problems of ecological and individualist fallacies occur when inferences are drawn about one level of analysis using evidence from another.
An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
Mexico, Ecuador finish in scoreless draw at New Meadowlands Stadium Soccer News: MLS, U.S., World & World Cup Scores, Standing & Scores
The closely held retailer said it would sue its partner to recoup more than $ 50 million it claims was unfairly withdrawn.
The documentation for this type of arrangement should be drawn up by a solicitor experienced in such matters.
The wood also makes good charcoal for artists to draw with. Times, Sunday Times
A horse-drawn tonga keeps stately pace with the latest Mercedes, jostled by cycles and bikes.
Since draughtsmanship was the foundation of all his art, engravings, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, and drawings poured from him in astonishing quantity and quality.
The book is a rare collector's edition as it includes an original drawing of Winnie the Pooh in traditional Russian costume playing a balalaika.
Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw. Storyteller
Management's withdrawal from the negotiations greatly disturbs us.
To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
Their clerks, mostly in straw boaters, hurried along.
The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent.
More important in MMA is skills, fast hips, a good sprawl, well rounded skill and natural genetics. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402
The frontier ran roughly north-westwards from London into the north-west midlands; Guthrum was to withdraw with his troops behind this line, where he was to be recognized as king of an independent kingdom.
The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
Sew the short ends together to form a circle then fold it in half with wrong sides together so the raw edges meet.
Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
After condensation, the fluids are drawn back to the areas that are in need of cooling.
Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.
His talent is raw and undisciplined.
Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt.
It would be wonderful to crawl into bed, to ask Matron for an aspirin.
Each evening, before retiring, the careful wife sees that a hocho, or kitchen knife, is laid upon the kitchen floor, and covered with a kanadarai, or brazen wash - basin, on the upturned bottom of which is placed a single straw sandal, of the noiseless sort called zori, also turned upside down. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
The infant Isabella from her coign to do obeisance toward the duffgerent, as first futherer with drawn brand. Finnegans Wake
Price pulled up during a routine drill and was withdrawn from the squad by medical staff. Times, Sunday Times
The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts. London Films
All seven characters are drawn with illuminating detail and superbly played by an outstanding young company.
So, no need to trawl the high street! The Sun
The sound of the human whistle, like that in the most primitive instrumental forms - a whistle fashioned from a hollow tube of wood or straw - is made by the turbulence generated in an airstream at the narrow orifice formed by pursing the lips.
When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
Philadelphia Museum of Art For drawings, such as this farmscape, James Castle would use soot and saliva for ink. Images from a Life of Silence
It is sad that there are ineffective ministers and somnolent bureaucracy giving the people a raw deal.
I was told when the last fixtures were made it would be decided in a draw.
The characters look great - being that they are 3D models with hand drawn looks - using techniques such as calligraphic strokes and ink smudges to resemble true anime art, but, it still feels like more of the same. Epinions Recent Content for Home
But the designer decided to withdraw the shoes over fears they could become a lethal weapon if the wearer accidentally trod on someone else's foot, the Daily Telegraph reported.
This was replaced in 1956 by a bigger four-stroke engine offering 297 cubic centimetres of raw power.
He ran the torch over the shelves cabinets table drawers but there were no more photographs and no obvious photo albums.
Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.
No fighting style remains a mystery to Hopkins inside the ring and he can box with you or brawl - it does not matter.
But the preparatory drawings of individual members of the family remain. Times, Sunday Times
I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out
That allowed him to adjust and adapt his sprawling tale. Times, Sunday Times
For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
Football is an interesting battle of brain as well as brawn and in the final term significant changes evolved in each team.
In drawing the image, GDI was using the device context's colors regardless of whether the bitmap was a DDB or a DIB. ReactOS News Feed (Atom 1.0)
From the time the draws were made Sean Dempsey had targeted this game as the crucial tie of the championship.
Ships had to discharge their cargoes at congested anchorages either into horse drawn lighters or onto packhorses for the journey to the industrial centre.
Stir in the tomato purée and cook for 5-10 minutes or until the raw tomato smell disappears. Times, Sunday Times
One drawing, dated 1768, shows a short-legged lidless partitioned square box, and another, dated 1769, shows an octagonal lidded container on short legs partitioned to hold eight bottles.
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
He cannot afford to draw the unwanted attention of gossip columnists unless he has some ulterior motive for doing so. Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
The team have drawn up a list of three potential sites for landing stages for the punts, the first at Castle Mill, the second at the Coppergate Centre, the third on the Hungate site.
Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws. Times, Sunday Times
We need someone at the event who'll be a big draw and attract the paying public.
It was growing increasingly obvious as I defended myself against her attack that she was simply toying with me, drawing out my technique as a schoolmaster draws recitations from his students.
Most kids are drawing perfect ovals while others leave it blank.
Every splash of bright colour has gone back into a drawer not to be glimpsed again until next spring.
The days / evenings are drawing out.
Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
His rearrangement of the furniture left an important room, the anteroom to the drawing room, without a centrepiece.
It also referred to what it called "extraordinarily challenging world-wide economic conditions" and higher raw material prices. BBC News - Home
Archaeologists were excited to find lots of bronzes, ceramics, lacquerworks, wood tomb figures, steel weapons and leather weapons, jewelry and even coloured drawings.
She won a hamper including organic porridge, Cornish strawberry conserve and Gloucester Old Spot Bacon.
One legend has it that thyme was included among the hay used to make a bed for the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, so it is often considered one of “Mary’s bedstraws” of which there are several. Thyme - The Virgin's Humility
That's one of the main Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. WN.com - Articles related to EU navy arrests 13 pirates off Oman
They are likely to be drawn to the same kind of partner and are often suddenly thrown into close proximity by family ties and get-togethers. The Sun
The ending of secure tenancies could have a bigger impact on the demography of London than the creation of the new towns," she says, recalling the creation of places such as Basildon, Crawley and Harlow that were filled with people flowing out of the capital. Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home
Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing - and drawing the figure especially.
Occasionally, the author appears to overreach his material to draw premature conclusions.
Using plain white and ivory paper, straws and pipe cleaners, she creates faux gemstones, crystals and pearls.
Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house outen pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made' im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los 'a Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
A minimum of one Lotto ticket serial number is drawn from all valid tickets each Lotto draw.
He pulls out a drawer beside me, and starts riffling through it, obviously he doesn't find what he's looking for, because he slams the drawer a moment later and opens the one below it.
The same agents sold a three-bedroom mews, Beiginish on Stable Lane in Monkstown, following its withdrawal from auction at €650,000.
Replanting disease is a serious obstacle for sustainable development of strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch) at present.
The country is preparing for an almost complete withdrawal of foreign troops and diminishing international aid that forms the bulk of its economy. Times, Sunday Times
Also add chopped, raw vegetables such as carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes to munch on. The Sun
A week earlier they were about to be held to a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford by the struggling Wolves when Park Ji-sung won the game in Fergie flexitime. Sir Alex Ferguson thrilled by comeback but knows he has problems
It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. Youth And Two Other Stories
Her longings grew more varied and virulent with each passing year: raw pig meat, Hawaiian pineapples infeasible to procure in revolutionary Cuba, chewing tobacco, cockscomb stew. The Lady Matador’s Hotel
The heart of their study is a large sample of loan contracts drawn by Parisian notaries.
Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside. How to cook the perfect paella
The tooth was drawn from the upper jaw.
This invention relates to improvements in vertical continuous casting or the casting technique of obtaining cast pieces by drawing a strand formed in a water-cooled mold downward without incurvating, and then cutting the strand.

How To Use Raw In A Sentence

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