Earthlings, ready your straws.
He gnawed sticks and straws.
Jane: How about drawing straws to decide?
a drowing man will clutch at straws
We drew straws for who went first.
Grasping at straws, straw-man arguments, the last straws and the straws that break so many camels' backs all attest to that.
He grabbed at straws but he could not reach it.
anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random.
The racers balloted for places by drawing straws
Let's decide who should go first by drawing straws
Who would bother about a few straws if I burned them?
I saw a group of men sucking beer from a big barrel through straws
Study on the status of two-phase anaerobic fermentation for crop straws
for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle.
Wet cleaning of cut straws in pulpers is also practiced in some mills as an alternative.
clutch at a straw/straws; try to grasp a slight opportunity to escape,rescue sb,etc in desperate circumstances
You're grasping at straws if you think you can pass that exam by starting to study the night before!
Errors are like straws upon the surface; if you want to find a pearl, you have to dive under it.
This Construction, adopting biochemical straw-feed invented by itself, on one hand reduces the cost of breeding, on the other hand takes a good use of sweat straws.
For Chinese viewers this week, Monday meant not light entertainment but a crash course in manufacturing Christmas decorations, plastic straws and green tea.
Harry, you are grasping at straws if you think you can pass that exam by starting to study the night before.
The HBS lignin is a new type of lignin, which is released from woods, grasses and straws by using high boiling alcohol as a solvent.
Soybean straws are dried after being rinsed with deionized water and are smashed to pass through a screen of 60 meshes;
The present invention discloses a method for greening desert by using crop straws including rice straw, wheat straw and reed bent instead of vegetation afforestation and its straw-embedding machine.
V: Gather round, allies, for I have endeavored to discern the true fuction of these items of mystic power, and now we shall each choose from among them, in the order determined by the drawing of straws.
And the worst of it is that it does not matter two straws to Nature, the mother of us all, how dreadfully we misbehave ourselves in this way, or in what hideous agonies we die.
Based on field study, I have got the indicators of evaluation of efficiency and the matrix of fuzzy evaluation, and then I have achieved the result of evaluation of efficiency of the use of straws.
"The protess is, first, the selected wheat straws are dried in the sun, cut open, and the pulp inside discarded. Then they are carefully ironed flat. Second, the straw is woven and glued to card board backings according to the different colors and textures."
