Without that your hair can become a bit straw-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty Game:] Reference

The straw-like spikes surrounding this plant are pneumatophores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mangrove swamp] Reference

But Nancy, why would this dollar bill be rolled up in that straw-like fashion, if it, in fact, was?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2008] Reference

No charcoal or dyes, but lots of the same straw-like stuff that we found in the latrines of private houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Gods]

The first thing that you need to do is find free landscaping ideas in reference to why your lawn is so straw-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Landscaping Ideas] Reference

In my minds eye, I saw again the slender, elegant frame in velvet frockcoat, the sparse, straw-like hair, the cold, bleak eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Butterfly] Reference

A coarse straw-like material, light in weight, brittle, and very expensive, used in blocking; frames are also made from it without blocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Your Own Hats] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion vs. the Sprinkler Police] Reference

The flashes lasted less than a second — but showed me the image of a much thinner man with straw-like hair and lips that had sunken in as his teeth had rotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

Pacifeeder is a bottle that straps to a car seat or stroller, coupled with an apparently flexible straw-like tube that runs from the bottle to a special pacifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sippy Cup Carabiners, Feeding Tubes and Other Anti-Gravity Products | Thingamababy] Reference

It was just a hope, ma'am, catching at a straw-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jonathan] Reference

Her skeletal face with the strange, straw-like hair filled the television screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

Then, a straw-like device that actually did capture crude was inconsistent at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

A straw-like filtration device that uses carbon nanotubes placed on a flexible, porous, material.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciDev.Net] Reference

Little straw-like wisps of straight brown hair stuck out from under the shawl over her forehead and ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911] Reference

Also, with these super-hot settings, remember to use a heat protectant or you could end up with thin, straw-like hair!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Mischa Barton took her long, blond straw-like locks and her raccoon eyes out to new club Bardot last night with a few pals.    From Wordnik.com.  [X17 Online] Reference

Being 36 years old is not an excuse to have dark roots on straw-like hair and clown makeup on an already questionable face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories] Reference

• The increment borer is the least invasive way to count tree rings and takes a small (0.200 inch diameter) straw-like sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Some were distant, and stood in a dense atmosphere, so that bundles of pale straw-like beams radiated around them in the shape of a fan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Native] Reference

THAT marvellous Hello! picture of "the real Prince William" showed us that beneath his wig of sparse straw-like hair was a mighty brunette's main.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anorak News] Reference

I think views as extreme and bizarre as AFI’s are rare enough to count as straw-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecuting BP] Reference

"straw-like" system that is inside the bottom to allow the air to vent back into the bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Just as well, for once he’d made his choice, his fiancée slurped up her competition with her fleshy straw-like tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wallpaper] Reference

Whirl'd, straw-like, round and round, and then ingulph'd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference