"straw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

straw sustantivo

sustantivo + straw
Kolokacji: 10
Jack Straw • Mr. Straw • drinking straw • soda straw • wheat straw • ...
straw + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 34
straw hat • straw poll • straw man • straw mat • straw mattress • ...
verbo + straw
Kolokacji: 6
grasp at straws • use straw • draw the straw • clutch at straws • spin straw • ...
adjetivo + straw
Kolokacji: 16
final straw • short straw • fresh straw • clean straw • dry straw • ...
(2) short, long
Kolokacji: 2
(3) dry, damp, wet
Kolokacji: 3
1. proverbial straw = przysłowiowa słoma proverbial straw
2. moldy straw = spleśniała słoma moldy straw
3. old straw = stara słoma old straw
4. musty straw = pachnąca stęchlizną słoma musty straw
  • - the behaviour of presenting him to her grandmother, talking now to her and now to him, while all the time he saw nothing but a bare garret, a heap of musty straw, a sunbeam, and a withered apple.
  • If it was old, musty straw, I wouldn't care for it.
  • Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw?
  • Mine enemy's dog," she said, "though he had bit me, should have stood that night against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, to hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, in short and musty straw?
  • And it did prosper mightily there on that short and musty straw.
  • With a sigh of frustration, Jastom sat down hard on the musty straw, resting his chin in his hands.
  • The smell of musty straw filled her head, and everything around her lurched into motion.
  • I see a tub, and a heap of musty straw, and a withered apple, and a ray of sunlight coming through a hole in the middle of the roof and shining on your head, and making all the place look a curious dusky brown.
  • Stiffly he stretched himself on the musty straw heaped in one corner.
  • Polly lay in the dark, on a bed of musty straw.
(5) pale, thin
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + straw
Kolokacji: 8
with straw • at straws • of straw • through a straw • in the straw • ...

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