Sentence examples for straw across from inspiring English sources

On a hot day last week, workers from Poland and Bulgaria were spreading straw across fields of strawberries while the knapped flint of Hoo's several 13th-century churches shone in the sun.

As surviving fighters have melted back into the desert and mountains in recent weeks, the Reapers have been surveilling vast reaches of the north for signs of militant infiltration or secret new redoubts — a daunting task that one American official described as "looking through a soda straw" across the Sahara.

As shown in Table 5, farmers in the Aba'ala district harvested hay and straw across the five years (2011 to 2015).

My toddler played with a lively brindled terrier, while my four-year-old helped spread straw across a muddy driveway.

Monkeys, which he deemed friendlier, were climbing up sterling-silver drinking straws across the street at Tiffany & Co. "Very cute for a party," he said.

The company broke its one-year record in 2014, selling 12 million semen-infused straws across the globe.

He began cultivating party leaders and activists in 2006 and has continued to lavish attention on them, sending representatives to push his cause at meetings, making sure to support county Republican Party organizations and competing vigorously in straw polls across the state.

First, conservative Republican former state House Speaker Marco Rubio handed Charlie Crist embarrassment after embarrassment by obliterating Crist in numerous straw polls across Florida, confirming that Florida's conservative Republican base overwhelmingly prefers Rubio to Crist as their nominee, no matter what the DC GOP establishment and NRSC might try to dictate to Florida Republicans.

Using sharp, heavy duty scissors, or even tin snips, cut the ends of your straw straight across.

Elsewhere, contractors waded across straw fortresses in baggy protective suits, hard hats and face masks.

They eat mainly rice porridge and sleep on straw mats spread across the floor, tended by nannies fanning themselves languidly in the humid air.