The long straw fell to me and I ate a few bites of the steak we fried, then sat back to wait.
She looked at her husband, looked away, and pulled the long straw for herself.
My staff was fighting over who would get the honors, but I picked the longest straw.
Jason drew the long straw and thus would jump second.
"I think I got the long straw," she told him.
If the couple picked all 5 long straws, they won a car.
Death instead by, say, sniffing car exhaust in highway town, perhaps through long hollow straw.
There was a further quarrel as to which of the three it would be, and the lucky one drew the long straw.
He drew on some long straw with similar result.