halm
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The hefty sandwich is piled with smoked halm, spicy giardiniera, caramelized onions, Havarti and arugula.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2023
A halm of wheat, brought hither God knows whence, was playing the lonely dandy.
From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan
He distributes a multitude of straws, which he inserts to stick out in different places, so that the halm may remind him of what his memory cannot retain.
From The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury by Thomas, Ernest Chester
Mich hāt ein halm gemachet frō: 380 er giht, ich süle genāde vinden. ich maȥ daȥ selbe kleine strō, als ich hie vore sach von kinden.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph
Faith! she sat as straught as a rash, wi' jist a hing i' the heid o' her, like the heid o' a halm o' wild aits.'
From Robert Falconer by MacDonald, George
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