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raw

(= natural, rude) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes natural yogurt natural produce raw wool raw sugar bales of rude cotton having the surface exposed and painful a raw wound brutally unfair or harsh received raw treatment from his friends a raw deal not treated with heat to prepare it for eating not processed or refined raw sewage (= crude) not processed or subjected to analysis raw data the raw cost of production only the crude vital statistics (= naked) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure naked ambition raw fury you may kill someone someday with your raw power (= new) lacking training or experience the new men were eager to fight raw recruits used of wood and furniture raw wood untempered and unrefined raw talent raw beauty (= altogether, birthday suit) informal terms for nakedness in the raw in the altogether in his birthday suit (= bleak) unpleasantly cold and damp bleak winds of the North Atlantic (= tender) hurting the tender spot on his jaw (= bare-assed) (used informally) completely unclothed

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Simple sentences

She likes to eat fresh raw vegetables.
I never feed my dog raw meat.
The ship is carrying raw cotton.
It is advisable to eat more raw food.
Some people have switched to raw food.
Raw food isn't for everyone.
People who eat raw food are called fruitarians.
Can you eat raw oysters?
You shouldn't have eaten the fish raw.
As he had no way of making fire, he ate the fish raw.
The ship transports raw materials from Indonesia.
As is often the case with Americans, he does not care for raw fish.
Were I a foreigner, I could not eat raw fish.
I can't stand raw fish.
Have you ever eaten raw fish?
Japan is lacking in raw materials.
Japan imports various raw materials from abroad.
Japan depends on imports for raw materials.
He doesn't eat raw fish.
To my surprise, they ate the meat raw.
We import raw materials and export the finished products.
We eat fish raw.
We often eat fish raw.
Generally speaking, Westerners don't eat fish raw.
The province supplies its neighbors with various raw materials.
Cabbage can be eaten raw.
We often eat fish raw in Japan.

Movie subtitles

Today, they're building ocean-going ships again in China vast ships capable of bringing back the raw materials necessary to feed China's insatiably growing industrial economy.
They eat raw onions.
All we want to hear out of you is one more little yip. and we'll cut ya up and eat ya raw.
I want to see life in the raw.
You want to see life in the raw?
Well, gal, I'm afraid we ain't got no raw life up here.
She's a raw kid from the chorus.
The idea of offering a raw carrot to an Andrews.
Put a piece of raw steak on it.
You take me to the nearest newsstand and I'll eat a pack of your postcards raw.
Stirring up the whole rotten mess where life is hard, raw and ugly.
It's going to be eaten raw.
Nothing but lumps of raw flesh.
Probably raw. Mine have got to be cooked.
In the realm of raw strength, you can surpass even me.
I want to see some life in the raw.
Life in the raw?
We ain't got no raw life up here.
This is raw nature, old man.
He's a raw, uncouth sort of boy who works for Miggs.
You pictured us running around in animal skins, eating raw meat?
But unfortunately it's burnt on one side and raw on the other!
You take me to the nearest news-stand and I'll eat a pack of your postcards raw.
He looks just right to me. I could eat him raw.
Probably raw.
I'm not sure which. It was all pretty raw. I shouldn't be surprised if he drank or even worse.
You have the kind of no-nonsense honesty and raw emotional insight that I look for in a commercial real estate lawyer.
I think he's getting a raw deal.
Raw? - Mm-hmm.
I forgot. The idea of offering a raw carrot to an Andrews.
Raw beets and carrots.
That's kinda raw, Roy.
I want a couple of hamburgers, and I'd like them raw.
Give me a spoonful of milk, a raw pigeon's egg and four houseflies.
Would you like some nice raw oysters, dear, or a dish of salt pork?
Yes, but not raw lacerations like that.
Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull, on whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, killing their fruit with frowns?

News and current affairs

But he rarely seems to act on the basis of raw sentiment or instinctive prejudice.
Armed convoys transport raw opium around the country unhindered.
The average IQ is, by definition, 100; but, to achieve that result, raw test results have to be standardized.
Nothing similar has happened in Asia, and issues dating back to the 1930's and 1940's remain raw, a problem exacerbated by biased textbooks and government policies.
Hasn't the start of the twenty-first century marked the death of all other ideologies, with China's raw capitalism putting pressure on gentler forms in Europe and elsewhere?
Argentina exports cows and raw materials; America exports high tech and services.
The report challenges the core principles of a faith-driven administration and of a president whose political gospel led him to a sharp departure from the culture of conflict resolution in favor of a crusade based on raw power.
The two are indissolubly associated over the many years during which we construct ourselves out of the raw material of genes and environment.
Oil's price reflects its extraction, refining, and distribution costs, but not that of creating the raw material.
In parts of New Jersey, many people fortunate enough still to have a house are cut off by rivers of raw sewage lapping at their doors.
Inside the plant, designer yeast cells transform the carbon dioxide released during the coal's combustion into raw materials for floor tiles and other construction supplies.
The aim of the ECSC was explicitly political: to remove control of the two most important raw materials for the production of heavy weaponry from states that had just fought the bloodiest war in history.
A decade after Europe's old division ended, the scars remain raw.
While econometric studies are not available, raw data show an increase in reported income and in the number of firms and official workers.
There was no question of violence. There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
Most Latin American countries still get poor results from their efforts to export to Europe, the exceptions being raw materials and energy resources.
Africa had to open its markets while producing raw materials and basic products to generate revenues for investment in industry, education, health, and food production.
And exports of raw materials to China, India, Europe, and the US - a key factor in Africa's recent growth surge - may suffer simply because the global slowdown means less consumption everywhere.
If not burned in a controlled way, the release of raw clathrates into the atmosphere would represent a global climate threat, and past massive releases have been catastrophic.
Indeed, fears are growing that southern Africa will be condemned to the role of exporter of raw materials.
Following independence in 1975, the government banned the export of raw cashew nuts to stimulate domestic processing.
When the government began to loosen restrictions on raw cashew exports in the late 1980s, workers and employers in these factories took a big hit.
In the early 1990s, the World Bank prevailed on Mozambique to liberalize the cashew sector and to lift the remaining restrictions on exports of raw cashews.
Reducing the cost of imports is significant because China imports a wide range of consumer goods, equipment, and raw materials.
There were just very raw nerves and hypersensitivity to hints of disrespect, on the part of the professor, and of the cop.
After all, genuine leadership cannot come from raw power, but only from other states' consent or tacit acceptance.
Humans have long asked this question, but the evidence - the raw data - was lacking.
Second, since the world market for raw cashews is less competitive than that for processed cashews, Mozambique suffered a loss in its external terms of trade.