Sentence examples for bit of straw from inspiring English sources

And either put some soil on and then use straw as the mulch, or if you want to, you can just put straw on them quite a bit of straw, mind you.

I found myself in more like a marquee than a tent with mud everywhere and a bit of straw and a bin liner to put my sleeping bag on.

His portraits of black-eyed anemones and pinstriped fritillaries are his better-known works, but his greatest ones are the pulpy Indian onions, shedding skin; the glinting ridges of drying chilis; the curling petals of theatrically dying tulips; and the series "True Facts from Nature," which depicts rows of, for example, two dry sycamore seeds, three disintegrating leaves, and a bit of straw.

It may not seem like the most dynamic of museum exhibits: visitors stare through a glass pane at an inert, soggy wooden crate with a bit of straw poking out the top.

A little bit of straw, sawdust or pine needles (not hay as it's not absorbent enough) to make litter for the nest goes a long way.

Stick a bit of straw in your hair and grab one of those long grass/grain things to chew on, and you're set.

He will make art with joy, with freedom – but every bit of straw-thickened paint must contain the full and awful burden of history.

Ruthie looks down at the floor of the barn, which is covered in bits of straw.

The trouble with seeking a meaningful needle in massive haystacks of data, says Trevor Hastie, a statistics professor at Stanford, is that "many bits of straw look like needles".

Bits of straw flew everywhere when I cut into a bale and earplugs were essential to block out the roar of the motor.

Reading Mr. Heaney's restrained, earthy poems, you can almost smell the bits of straw and dried sheep dung woven into their woolen fabrics.