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In the field opposite my home, lines of cut and wilting grass lie in ridges that cast shadows across the straw-like colour of cut sward.
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They form swarms on herbaceous plants and using their straw-like mouthparts, pierce the plant stems and drink their fill.
David Mizejewski: The Good Side of Bad Breath David Mizejewski 2011
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In the field opposite my home, lines of cut and wilting grass lie in ridges that cast shadows across the straw-like colour of cut sward.
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They form swarms on herbaceous plants and using their straw-like mouthparts, pierce the plant stems and drink their fill.
David Mizejewski: The Good Side of Bad Breath David Mizejewski 2011
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Answer: Foraging beesvisit flower after flower collecting their nectar by drawing it throughan extendabledrinking straw-like appendage called a proboscisand storing it in their honey stomach.
The Buzz on Honey 2008
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Peel and remove any dark spots and tough straw-like areas.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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When I grew up in Atlanta, it was so rainy a fish could survive on land; but when I visited last year, I found straw-like lawns and a total watering ban.
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The straw-like spikes surrounding this plant are pneumatophores.
Mangrove swamp 2008
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The first thing that you need to do is find free landscaping ideas in reference to why your lawn is so straw-like.
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In my minds eye, I saw again the slender, elegant frame in velvet frockcoat, the sparse, straw-like hair, the cold, bleak eyes.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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