Sentence examples for a straw bale from inspiring English sources

So, what exactly is a straw bale?

What you'll soon learn there is that a straw-bale garden is a garden that has been grown in a straw bale.

In other words, a straw bale is often literally cheaper than dirt.

They had also fashioned a secret entrance, hidden behind what looked like a straw bale.

At first Julia and I were worried that if we chose a straw bale house as our test run, we would be committing to a straw bale house for ourselves, or risk wasting four months.

When Mr. Karsten, 43, first planted a straw bale, he wasn't planning to rewrite the annals of kitchen gardening.

And in the yard, there's a straw-bale hut that one of the owners built for storage.

Just outside Santa Fe, on a parcel of streamside land, she had even built her own house — a straw-bale construction shaded by ponderosas, meant for the family she hoped to have one day.

She hails originally from Tobago, which may explain her unorthodox attitude to building: she had wanted to replace the warehouse with a straw-bale construction, but that would not have allowed space for a garden.

They own a lodge here in Kingston, and back in the early '90s they offered to build a straw-bale cabin near the lodge so my husband, Ralph, and I could escape the heat of our home in Arizona.

By the time Ms. Menke had been given the tour of Mr. Sanders's straw-bale houses, and had been invited to work on his former wife's new home, a straw-bale then in the making, she was a goner, she said.