Nobody's gonna draw straws.

Let us not grab at straws.

Maybe you'd like to draw straws.

Okay, everybody, hold on to your straws.

Jonathan, with a whole lot of plastic straws.

So raise your straws if you'll join me.

Either we all stay and die, or you guys draw straws.

We had a meeting and we drew straws and we got you.

And they took one look and ran out the back to draw short straws.

They that with haste will make a mighty fire begin it with weak straws.

All right. I can do it. Let's just draw straws and get it over with.

When we all drew straws to see who'd go with Brandy, you didn't have a short straw.

But a recent article by Paul G. Bell in the Mensa magazine provides some straws in the wind.

And also, there's way more cells in your brain than the number of straws in a typical haystack.

Grasping at straws, she pleaded with the senator to make an appointment for her with the president's wife.

left and right, simply evaporating our politicians seem to be grasping at straws, they are left with little other options except for

But it ranged from such items as a complete de mining equipment to these kind of water sterilizing straws, so it was really wide ranging.

And when we'd finished, he went around silently and he joined all of the straws up till it looped around the whole ward, and then he said,

More water comes down, the deforested areas, here in the Tarai, will be unable to absorb the effluent, because trees are like straws that suck up the extra seasonal water.

And we'll watch as global warming makes them melt. More water comes down, the deforested areas, here in the Tarai, will be unable to absorb the effluent, because trees are like straws that suck up the extra seasonal water.

All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are, because we are all connected by millions and millions of straws, and it's time to join those up and to hang on.

The Mubarak trial saga has had its ups and downs, but today's verdict seems to be like one of the final straws Egyptians can take. Despite being muzzled by a controversial anti protest law which has seen the jailing of countless protestors, Egyptians enraged at the judgement took to the streets to vent off.