"straw" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The day passed; no move was made save surreptitiously to pile the wood, straw, tinder and brush in front of the lines.
- The raiders piled straw against the wood and burnt them all alive.
- She spent a few minutes poking through the blankets and piled straw where he must have made his bed, long since torn apart by others searching for clues.
- When I had finished we covered Monty with a horse rug and piled straw on top of that, leaving only his head sticking out.
- Inside the citadel, Võ Tánh ordered his men to pile straw around a wooden tower and fill it with gunpowder.
- They went in and the Arab spoke with one of the guardians, who cleared the occupants from a stall at one side and piled fresh straw in its corner for Port to lie down on.
- From the middle of the crowd was rising now smoke and it was here eight more of the band naked, tied round a tree and they were burning from the bottom where was piled straw and stick-bundles and logs, all taken from our firewood what we collected every day.
- They piled straw and fem for a bed, and she curled up by the entrance.
- "I like the winter up here," said Ria, helping them pile straw warmly in the stables.
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