Straw has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | He says straw takes in carbon dioxide as it grows. So it can be seen as having no harmful effects on the environment. He says straw helps the environment in other ways. | |
| 2. | Therefore he commanded the same day the overseers of the works, and the task-masters of the people, saying: You shall give straw no more to the people to make brick, as before; but let them go and gather straw. | |
| 3. | "Frank, in Daoism, Tiāndì or Sky-Earth treats people like 'straw dogs.'" "'Straw dogs,' Don?" "Yeah, Frank." | |
| 4. | Heaven and earth exhibit no benevolence; to them the ten thousand things are like straw dogs. The holy man exhibits no benevolence; to him the hundred families are like straw dogs. Is not the space between heaven and earth like unto a bellows? It is empty; yet it collapses not. It moves, and more and more comes forth. | |
| 5. | A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. | |
| 6. | This is the last straw! | |
| 7. | They filled them with straw to make them round and hard. | |
| 8. | It was bad enough that he usually came to work late, but coming in drunk was the last straw, and I'm going to have to let him go. | |
| 9. | That's the last straw! | |
| 10. | The straw appears bent at the place where it enters the water. |