draw the short straw in a sentence

Examples

1. Their quest takes them deep into the very smelly bowels of the city s sewers before Steve draws the short straw as the Mud Men investigate the Victorian obsession with death.
2. So how did Brenly, who will do a Dodgers game in eight of the first nine weeks of Fox's Saturday afternoon game of the week, draw the short straw?
3. The cops took 59 of the dogs to shelters, leaving two Labs behind, looking at each another and saying, " How did we draw the short straws ?"
4. OMGcom is self-appointed, or elected by the community, or foisted upon whoever draws the short straw, or chosen by Jimbo from a dark silken bag at midnight under a full moon.
5. "The Widow of St . Pierre, " a heart-wrenching examination of severed heads and broken hearts, draws the short straw as it attempts to open against the big-studio behemoth " Pearl Harbor ."
6. Discussing the problem of inexperience among the new workers, Robert E . Boyle, the center's executive director, said officials had tried to time the conversion so that it would inconvenience the smallest number of exhibitors but that " some show owner had to draw the short straw ."
7. As a consternated Jacques Lemaire, the Devils coach, remarked last season as he tried to figure out which of his players deserved to draw the short straw assignment of guarding Jagr in the playoffs, " I don't think you can shadow him because he's all over the ice ."
8. The winners are Bridget and Adam, but Bridget decides to go to university instead of joining the Pro Circuit, so Loren gets the wild card after Cassie literally'draws the short straw'( as they both have the same number of points in the final surf-off so they decide who gets the wild card this way ).
9. For the fourth person the chances to draw the short straw are a product of chances of the first three people consecutively NOT pulling the straw out and the fourth person to draw it afterwards ( the size of the bunch gets progressively smaller by one for every next person ) : \ tfrac { N-1 } { N } \ times \ tfrac { N-2 } { N-1 } \ times \ tfrac { N-3 } { N-2 } \ times \ tfrac { 1 } { N-3 } = \ tfrac { 1 } { N }.