[
UK
/stɹˈɔː/
]
[ US /ˈstɹɔ/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹɔ/ ]
NOUN
- a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
- plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
VERB
-
spread by scattering (
strew toys all over the carpet
straw -
cover or provide with or as if with straw
cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm
ADJECTIVE
- of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
How To Use straw 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
- 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
- For a picnic, chill the strawberries and cream separately, take them along in a cool box, and assemble them on site.
- A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth.
- The straw that broke the camel's back was "jete" - which I said was a ballet term, from the French. Archive 2009-01-01
- 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
- He signed his works with a wild strawberry. Times, Sunday Times
- Unfortunately, the group's dalliance with satanism proved to be their undoing, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
- Biscuit base filled with lemon scented Ilalian ricotta cheese, decorated with strawberries and red currants.
- If implemented, Straw's curfew will allow adults to evade taking responsibility for the welfare of future generations.