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straws
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strawsnoun
Plural form of straw.
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straws
Straw is an agricultural by-product of cereal plants.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
STRAWS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Straws is ranked #106096 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Straws surname appeared 168 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Straws.
50% or 84 total occurrences were White.
35.7% or 60 total occurrences were Black.
9.5% or 16 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.9% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
Anagrams for straws »
swarts
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of straws in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of straws in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of straws in a Sentence
The idea that we're making the same kind of progress (as in Colombia) is grasping at straws for justification.
This is not nearly enough, partly because it’s a supply and demand problem. We still got a lot of straws in the ground, but you’d need multiple years like this in a row to really move the needle on recharging those aquifers. There’s probably some recharge going on right now, but it’s unlikely to be the very large amount that would be needed to really make a big difference there.
I’m a bit of a cynic when it comes to bitcoin projections, i think it’s just a selection of people clutching at straws, trying to justify any reasons to be bullish.
Lots of smaller ones are grasping at straws, trying to survive as long as they can because the valleys depend on this tourism.
We're all grasping at straws as to what to do with the earthquake families, obviously, it isn't as large of a movement as after Hurricane Maria. ... But these are hundreds of households who are homeless, who are suffering from PTSD, who have been hit by two traumas -- Hurricane Hurricane Maria and now the earthquakes.
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