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Example sentences for: straw

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There have been national news stories based on straw polls of a few hundred party loyalists in Mississippi, Texas, and the Midwest.
TIME.com's straw poll allowed anyone, not just registered voters, to cast a ballot and to do so as many times as they wished.
And I thought about being launched off the horse and all the other stuff that happened that same year--the time I fell out of a tree in my neighbor's yard, the time I fell 20 feet from a hay loft and landed unhurt on a barn floor covered with straw; the time I wrecked a minibike or fell into a ravine after trying to swing one-handed on a tree vine, like I'd just seen Johnny Weismuller do in a Tarzan movie.
Augusto Pinochet made a comeback on Europe's front pages Friday after British Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that Spanish extradition proceedings against him could go ahead.
Before World War II he would write that Bunter couldn't care a straw, but in his later novels he changed this to couldn't care less, so his ear for dialogue stayed tuned into very old age.