One such is a black- and straw-colored, striped "Point Basket" (2011) by Jeremy Frey.

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She unfolded her white paper napkin and began to dab her straw on it, leaving faint tea-colored dots.

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The IBM team's quantum computer was a straw-thin vial filled with a rust-colored liquid packed with millions of copies of a single organic molecule.

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Rather than baskets, children once left out their straw-filled caps and bonnets to be filled with colored, hard-boiled eggs by the Easter Hare.

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