Exempel på reed

• Of the loam buildings, the wooden poles and the reeds represented the inflammable materials.

• An ancient city, protected by matted reeds, a creator of ruin.

• We have seen to our sorrow miles of it, full of thistles, reeds and rubbish, and producing little.

• We see reeds and rushes where before there was pasture.

• The three-tier mahogany buffet with partially reeded slender balustrade upright supports was a theme of his television programme.

• I regret to say that some of our allies today are broken reeds.

• They are merely reeds shaken by the wind of political pressure.

• The huts were constructed of corrugated iron, bamboo and woven reeds, and would have been quite inadequate to keep out a really heavy rainfall.

• Our clumsy novices play their part in creating isolationists by talk which allows them to misrepresent us by calling us broken reeds and ingrates.

• Elementary education is essentially a preparatory education, and ought to be organised with regard for the growing reeds of the child.

• He could tell us about the optimum wind pressures for chorus reeds or the composition of mixtures.

• They were cultivating this land which had never grown anything but reeds before, and they were producing their own rice.

• The manufacture of these reeds takes place in my constituency, by highly skilled persons who are very anxious to retain this export trade.

• If he will not do this, will he at least explain why there reeds to be secrecy over such an important matter?

• Furthermore, the reeds themselves can take up a proportion of the waste, including metals, and aquatic plants are being used to extract and recover precious metals from waste waters.