The Zeeweed system uses long thin straws that suck up water then force it through the small holes of a membrane to filter out particles.

He tossed aside the ridiculously thin straw and gulped down some of the ginger ale while he took a slower look around.

"A thin straw to weave a basket, something you remember from a book likely written by someone who never saw an Aiel."

On the other side of the bar is a heavy woman sipping a red drink from a thin red straw.

Cube asked, grasping a thin straw of understanding.

It consisted of a tube of viscous plastic substance and a thin straw used to blow semi-solid bubbles.

Or was he grasping at a thin straw?

A thin straw is then inserted into the ball, and the artist begins to blow air into it, in order to slowly inflate it.

The nurse left to assist another donor and Belinda sucked from her juice box through its thin straw.

She starts to sip through the thin straw.