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• Tow is flax with short staple.
• Oxfam report warns cost of staples could soar as result of climate change, rising energy prices and growing demand. (Al Jazeera)
• Fortunately, there were staples in the quay wall, and she was able to climb out of the water.
• The rancher used staples to attach the barbed wire to the fence-posts.
• Can you believe they use staples to hold cars together these days?
• wool, the great staple commodity of England
• a staple trade
• a staple town
• to staple cotton
• The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.
• In most countries, rubbish makes headlines only when it is not collected, and stinking sacks lie heaped on the streets. In Britain bins are a front-page staple.
• Rice is a staple in the diet of many cultures.
• The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
• We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester.
• Whitehall naturally became the chief staple of news. Whenever there was a rumour that any thing important had happened or was about to happen, people hastened thither to obtain intelligence from the fountain head.
• Calais was one of the ‘principal treasures’ of the crown, of both strategic and economic importance. It was home to the staple, the crown-controlled marketplace for England's lucrative textile trade, whose substantial customs and tax revenues flooded into Henry's coffers.
• For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses of Woodstock, her majesty was minded to erect the town into a staple for wool.