Straw in example sentence

By dint of talking for talking's sake, and of trying to keep the conversation alive, Madame de Renal found herself saying that her husband had come from Verrieres because he had made a bargain, for the purchase of maize straw, with one of his farmers.

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This is a straw.

This is a kind of a blowing straw.

This is a little straw, and what you do is you just nip two corners here, and this becomes like a baby crocodile's mouth.

This is how he became known to the public, and this is what probably became the straw that broke the camel's back.

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