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Example sentences for: straw

How can you use “straw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I haven't got a brain--only straw.
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The final straw was surely the grotesque affair of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life . This book came close to claiming that, given your genes, it makes no difference to your economic success whether you grew up in Scarsdale or the South Bronx.
Today's New York Times has a teaser on the front page, "With Straw Vote In, Some Hint of a Race," that says Gov. George W. Bush really has a contest on his hands.
One wonders why the usually judicious Samuelson found it necessary to invent this straw man.