Antonyms for straw
strɔstraw

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1. • Cover
   • Plant Fiber
   • Plant Material
   • Spread

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1. strawnoun

   plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, husk

2. chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw, stubblenoun

   material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, angry walk, pale yellow, drinking straw, still hunt, stalking, stem, husk

3. pale yellow, straw, wheatnoun

   a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat berry, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, husk

4. straw, drinking strawadjective

   a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

   Antonyms:
   neutral, achromatic

   Synonyms:
   stubble, stalk, shuck, wheat, chaff, pale yellow, drinking straw, husk

5. strawverb

   of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

6. strawverb

   cover or provide with or as if with straw

   "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm"

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   strew

7. strew, strawverb

   spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)

   "strew toys all over the carpet"

   Antonyms:
   achromatic, neutral

   Synonyms:
   strew

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1. strawnoun

   Synonyms:
   stalk, culm, litter, mulch, sennet, platting

How to use straw in a sentence?

1. Alexandra Abrams:

   I was like,' Wow, now I see how the most powerful person in the world uses their power.' They use it to continually shore up their position and disempower people around them, and that kind of broke my mind about all the stuff I've been communicating about space and humanity's better future... That was the last straw.

2. Michael Roth:

   Spinning gold from straw has never yet worked. That is also true of Brexit, peace in Northern Ireland and the integrity of the internal market are non-negotiable for the EU.

3. Speaker Ryan:

   The president will have five or six straw men in the speech, I’m sure, and he’ll present a very glossy rendition of the last seven years.He’ll try to set some verbal traps along the way and it will be a very political and pointed speech, I would guess.

4. Cam Berlogar:

   It's a matter of who has the longest straw at the bottom of the bucket.

5. Ron Magill:

   You know, what is the straw that is going to break the camel's back when it comes to the balance of the environment ?

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