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Drinking straw

British pronunciation/dɹˈɪŋkɪŋ stɹˈɔː/
American pronunciation/dɹˈɪŋkɪŋ stɹˈɔː/
Drinking straw
[NOUN]
1

a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth

synonyms : straw
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1To address these problems, Marvin C. Stone patented the modern drinking straw, made of paper, in 1888.
2And now he's talking about one of the pictures, whether the illustration of a straw, a drinking straw one of the pictures was realistic or it was too long.
3The oldest drinking straw in existence was found in a Sumerian tomb dated 3,000 B.C.E. In the 1800s, the rye grass straw came into fashion because it was cheap and soft, but it had an unfortunate tendency to turn to mush in liquid.
4Defining its size is difficult because it’s always moving and it’s mostly a soup of tiny microplastics, not an island of grocery bags and drinking straws.
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