Straw in example sentence

The portmanteaus and carpet- bags have been stowed away, and Mr. Weller and the guard are endeavouring to insinuate into the fore-boot a huge cod-fish several sizes too large for it--which is snugly packed up, in a long brown basket, with a layer of straw over the top, and which has been left to the last, in order that he may repose in safety on the half-dozen barrels of real native oysters, all the property of Mr. Pickwick, which have been arranged in regular order at the bottom of the receptacle.

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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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