Sentence examples for by straw from inspiring English sources

RUINED BY Straw Dogs: in which Dustin Hoffman seeks a quiet place to do maths with his Cornish wife, until the locals get all Peckinpah on him.

American soldiers peeling his house apart, straw by straw.

And scientists have an inconvenient habit of not being diverted by "straw man" arguments.

"Chrome," by Paul Tran (September 25th) American soldiers peeling his house apart, straw by straw.

The decor too is half realistic and half symbolic: blood is real, yet sand is represented by straw.

Progress was monitored by the Home Office through the Stephen Lawrence steering group, which was chaired by Straw.

Additionally, Muhamad et al. (2010) investigated the effect of pH and temperature on Cd2+ removal by wheat straw.

This year's award recipient, Tokujin Yoshioka, has an installation demonstrating how material can be reinvented — an environment constructed by straws that will take up the entire fourth floor of the Moore Building in the Design District.

And the communities induced by straw-conditioning were verified with better acid production ability than SMS-conditioning.

Carbohydrate-fermentation-related genera (such as Clostridium IV, Xylanibacter, and Parabacteroides) and protein-fermentation-related genus Lysinibacillus were enriched by straw-conditioning, while totally different fermentation genera (Levilinea, Proteiniphilum, and Petrimonas) were enriched by SMS-conditioning.

Main populations include the straw-hulled (SH) group, early flowering weeds characterized by straw-colored hulls and lack of awns, and the black-hulled awned (BHA) group, later flowering weeds with seeds that have predominantly black hulls and long awns [ 30- 32].