drinking straw


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Noun1.drinking straw - a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouthdrinking straw - a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth
tube, tubing - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
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Materials: sugar * water * measuring cups * bowl * spoon * pie or cake tin * graduated cylinder * ruler * drinking straw * paper and pencil
I was very sorry to hear about the British woman who died after impaling herself on a reusable metal drinking straw -- and not just because it sounds like a terrible way to die.
She fell onto the metal drinking straw and impaled her left eye socket with the 10-inch stainless steel straw, that pierced through her brain.
A RETIRED jockey died when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye, an inquest heard yesterday.
Marvin Stone however, a cigarette holder manufacturer, was the first to create a paper drinking straw in 1888, by wrapping strips of paper around a pencil and gluing them together.
Personally, I've never been a fan of the drinking straw. Even when taking in other beverages like soda, fruit juices or teas.
Stanley the spider is a collector of precious things, things he cannot name, though even the youngest reader will be able to--a button, an oak leaf, berries, a bendy drinking straw. He weaves them artistically into his growing web, of which he is extremely proud.
Drinking straw producers are being urged to find eco-friendly alternatives to plastic that can be used by disabled people.
Even a drinking straw or a small square of poster board can serve for mark making.
Os trigonums, especially small ones, rarely need surgery, although that's not even a big deal since an endoscope the size of a drinking straw removes the bone.
Recently, I ran out of food coloring, so I came up with the idea to cut a small length of red drinking straw and put it in with the liquid.