Sentence examples for simple straw from inspiring English sources

The survey began in 1983 as a simple straw poll, when the magazine asked 662 college presidents to identify the country's best places of learning.

Men and women mingled; women wore flowered dresses and simple straw hats or head scarves -- until the influx of the Salafiyya teachers.

Van Gogh takes this idea and applies it to himself – he has just walked away, leaving his pipe and tobacco resting on the simple straw seat.

And a simple straw poll of European startups I conducted found plenty who either have a New York base already or are looking to create one.

Although the proboscis is a naturally well-designed coiled micro conduit for liquid uptake and deployment, it has been regarded as a simple straw connected to the muscular pump.

Comfort and advice Sitting outside the simple straw hut the girl shares with her extended family, Ms. Abdallah comforts her and gives her important advice about completing her education.

But this simple straw-polling exercise cannot tell us how many people view the issues in this way, and how many take a more pragmatic approach.

Earth tones -- wood floors and simple, straw-colored lamps -- warm up the modern chambers with their wide, white beds and unadorned walls.

His pipe and tobacco, as recommended by Dickens to keep away melancholy, rest on the simple straw-seated yellow chair, but he has gone.

An inexpensive option is a simple drinking straw.

LONDON — There is the leg of an Ancient Egyptian throne, an ornate 1730s cabinet thought to have belonged to the satirist Jonathan Swift and early 20th-century gems by Eileen Gray and Marcel Breuer, but one of the most intriguing treasures in the new Furniture Gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum is a simple wooden and straw chair with rather humbler origins.