TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “straw”

Hear “straw” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for straw

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of straw with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: How Blind Users Experience Youtubeit's like looking through a straw.
Definition summary: (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Example 1 of 8

How Blind Users Experience Youtube

it's like looking through a straw.

[Noun]
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
(countable) A drinking straw.
(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative, chiefly in the negative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
A straw owner.
[Adjective]
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
[Verb]
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
(obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.