How To Use Strapping In A Sentence

He was a strapping lad with broad shoulders and quite tall.
By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
Patients were encouraged to perform mobilization of the involved ankle several times per day after unstrapping the two most distal straps.
Perhaps you can entreat some strapping young lad into educating you in the ways of the world.
On to the stretcher with him, strapping on, doubled back along the landing, started down the stairway. RIOT

We discussed other treatment options - night splints, plantar strapping, orthotics, and a cortisone injection.
In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
She is a gorgeously full-figured woman, and he is quite the strapping middle-aged man.
After strapping the shoes securely to my feet, I ran down the stairs and to my black truck.
The strapping prevented any unseemly bulges, while keeping the smooth line of the tight trousers that were fashionable at the time.
The Kent athlete sprained his ankle after falling off a bus on Friday and competed with heavy strapping.
All other things being equal, is a check from his venture fund better than bootstrapping with no cash?
While the player has not suffered a dislocated shoulder or broken collar bone, he is in severe pain with apparent ligament damage and is unable to lift his arm which has been kept in a sling and strapping over the weekend.
Fifteen years on, thanks in large part to the 25 brave souls who put their careers on the line to be in at the beginning, the ailing infant has become a strapping teenager.
Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough.
Isn't it to do with being a man-at-arms, with strapping on armour and sallying forth into the wildwood on your horse, your lady's token on your arm, to right wrongs and do great deeds?
Police launched a murder inquiry almost eight weeks ago after disclosing that the cord on the main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been deliberately severed.
It was doubly surprising to those who remain convinced that the strapping James McLaren would be in his element if cast as an inside centre, whose primary job was to take the ball up.
He was a twenty-something, strapping young lad, never having exposed himself publicly!
And I too have noticed women doing the old 'phwoar' thing (although I have never been ogled at by a women since I was about 17, as I was considerably more 'strapping' than I am now) - so that must be true too. Girls Like Pink ...Fact
He's a strapping, robust he-man living a life of seclusion with other retired adventurers in Kenya, who handily dispatches a group of assassins.
This Vacuuming pic is just the evidence I need to motivate my gimped mother into keeping the place clean for my 7 healthy, strapping, able-bodied brothers and me! Bionic Man’s owner’s manual « Awful Library Books
There are a couple of ambos with her and one of them is strapping an oxygen mask over her face.
Thanks to Sarah Lai Stirland, Evan Hansen and Michael Calore at Wired for their help in bootstrapping this. Scripting News for 4/2/2008 « Scripting News Annex
Williams had shown no signs of being particularly hurt before the break, or of being restricted by the heavy strapping to her thigh afterwards.
He has made no attempt to hide the injury since then with heavy strapping around the knee and his movement has been hampered. The Sun
The big three can still be relevant, mind you; I suspect Asimov’s was essential in bootstrapping Charles Stross into being the decade’s pre-eminent SF writer when it published the short stories that would eventually become the Hugo-nominated novel Accelerando. Marketing the Big Three, Part 2
I ended up cleaning her off with paper towels from the bathroom, wrapping her naked in a blanket from the car, strapping her in the carseat with the blanket wrapped like a toga around her, and driving home. Hold The Mustard | Her Bad Mother
It seems there's a perception that it's a girlie programme, unsuitable for a strapping bloke with a shaven head.
I guess the stereotype would have been a strapping man dressed in robes, wearing a headscarf or turban with a long black beard.
Dr. Hans brought up the fact that although the alphorns were still made in Switzerland from traditional pinewood, the strapping around the length of the horn was these days made from Thai bamboo.
This kind of recursive bootstrapping is how science evolves. Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives
While you're bootstrapping along, being all disciplined and staying small and trying to get your ducks in a row, your competitors are spinning like crazy, hiring like crazy, growing like crazy.
-- I imagine it is owing to my being deficient in what Sterne calls "that understrapping virtue of discretion. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
He has changed the face of golf from an image of chubby guys like Fuzzy Zoeller and Craig Stadler with few other athletic capabilities to that of a strapping man in the prime of his life.
I am no longer afraid to go braless when I don't feel like strapping wires to my body.
I have been interested in bootstrapping society for a long, long time, and I’ve never been able to find a decent book on practical chemistry from scratch. Caveman Chemistry « Isegoria
As to Kawasaki's actual business suggestions, they include bootstrapping a small business, obtaining funding, writing a business plan, PR and marketing.
A warm genial spirit; a glowing fancy, and a friendly heart; every faculty but diligence, and every virtue but 'the understrapping virtue of discretion:' such is frequently the constitution of the poet; the natural result of it also has frequently been pointed out, and sufficiently bewailed. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Strapping it around his waist, he took two globs of slimy substance and pasted them onto the doors.
After initially telling police that she had been carjacked by a black man – and making tearless pleas for the safe return of her kids on national TV – Smith later confessed to strapping the two children into her Mazda Protege and letting the car roll into John D. Long lake in Union County. Haley To Oprah: Talk To The Hand
If Neil and the boys knew then what they know now, they'd likely have been far less interested in climbing aboard and strapping in.
You know the type: big strapping dude, centre of attention, the person everyone looks to for approval and the one without whom nothing important ever happens.
Although the DJ thing was so easy it bordered on catatonic, these strapping, earnest first-year university students actually made this cushy job a living hell.
The strapping is used for a wide range of materials such as bricks, blocks, briquettes and tiles.
As I was mowing along, I noticed a plastic stringy thing, the kind of plastic strapping material that gets used to hold together all sorts of big packaged stuff, the kind that's nearly uncuttable. Archive 2007-08-01
Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping moustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk. The Blazed Trail
After a few days you can gradually decrease the amount of strapping to the joint and begin passive movement.
Early indications are that McAteer has strained medial ligaments in his left knee but despite the midfielder later admitting he was ‘a bit sore’ he was able to limp on the Ireland team bus with heavy strapping.
The United manager shares none of his enthusiasm for strapping defenders protected by tigerish, sitting midfielders.
Johnathan traced her with his eyes until she was out of sight, then sat up, unstrapping the gun and putting it onto the counter with a dull thud that no one heard.
Dr. Hans brought up the fact that although the alphorns were still made in Switzerland from traditional pinewood, the strapping around the length of the horn was these days made from Thai bamboo.
The tortures that follow include strapping what Thomas calls a ‘teazle’ into William's mouth as a gag to choke him (presumably the large prickly seed-heads of teasels, Dipsacus fulonnum, that were used in the fulling of cloth).
It aims to teach three dozen students "to create their own jobs in Canada," often by "bootstrapping" - starting a business mostly with one's own cash flow, without receiving much outside capital. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The firm which manufactures butter tubs for the dairy industry as well as plastic strapping as seen on peat briquettes was once one of the major employers in Kildare.
Paragliding is the act of strapping on a parachute and running off the top of a cliff, where upward air currents fill the parachute and allow you to glide.
A strapping, baldheaded man in a gray three-piece appeared behind Senator Douglas. Big Secrets
A couple of strapping, self-assured young men come by, laughing and chatting as they haul their large 'wheelie' bags, like the ones the professionals use. Archive 2005-12-04
If it was some tall strapping guy who seemed to be her boyfriend, he would just leave and never call her again.
Tie-down straps were run over the cans and the excess strapping was used to put an extra turn in the tie-down ratchet.
He didn't reply as he took a collection of weapons, strapping them to his webbing.
But when he joined the sixth form he shot up to a strapping six foot two inches and lost his puppy fat. The Sun
He was wearing a golden vest with several pieces of protective armor of blue strapping against his limbs.
Fun-loving, spirited, humorous and attracted to outdoor amour, be warned that these high energy, exuberant wooers set a strapping pace.
They're quietly plotting their next hit, bootstrapping now to conserve their equity for later, reasoning that when the economy does pick up, they'll be positioned to move fast.
I'm even more surprised that there's no secondary securing mechanism, such as strapping or webbing, round the piles of plates in the cupboard.
She is not alone in her commitment to bootstrapping as a way of life.
Why don't we start with bootstrapping, which has been a critical part of the start-up process as you describe it.
The rest of the job is actual activism and bootstrapping more funding.
The hilt was of black leather strapping and silver was used for the crosspiece.
They both feature iron-age civilisations bootstrapping themselves up to starfaring capability or thereabouts.
As she waited she picked up a leather bracer from the table and went about strapping it back into place on her wrist.
The parent website ‘is about corporal punishment, including caning, birching, strapping, paddling, slippering, spanking, etc.’
Dr. Hans brought up the fact that although the alphorns were still made in Switzerland from traditional pinewood, the strapping around the length of the horn was these days made from Thai bamboo.
As her eyes scanned the chemistry lecture theatre her attention was drawn to the strapping, sporty-looking student at the other side of the room.
He set off into the woods, and strapping the bag around his neck, he stopped near a rabbit's warren.
He returned to Cameroon to visit in 2004, where even friends found it hard to believe that the strapping lad before them was the same scrawny kid who had seen his football dream shattered.
The first thing you'll notice after strapping yourself in is that there's two of everything: two throttles, two propeller controls, two mixtures and two of each gauge.
And that's all the more reason to keep bootstrapping now.
And for those of us who have lawns, the ease of strapping the mower on the back of the bike and pedaling out onto the grass to dismount and unload, is much more exciting than the sweaty ectomorph on sidigayporn.com. Beasts of Burden: Long Bikes and Shiny Riders
He has made no attempt to hide the injury since then with heavy strapping around the knee and his movement has been hampered. The Sun
But Jones managed to run off the injury and after the break the strapping was gone and he kicked Orrell six points clear with two more penalties.
Egged on by shrill cries of approval from the ladies’ auxiliary, strapping bosthoons executed nimble jigs and reels, sang come-all-ye's, and vied with each other in hurling refuse cans the length of the street.
And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
I greatly enjoyed your February article on bootstrapping.
The strapping restricted the movement of my knee, but it was a case of making it through to the next round.
Physio Mark Taylor bandaged him up and, after Pedersen tested the strapping and his confidence in training on Friday, he was restored to the front line.
If you are interested in startups and entrepreneurship, or if you just want to read a good business book about bootstrapping, forming partnerships, and giving relevant presentations, be sure to pick up a copy.
Wear an arm brace - this is a form of strapping made of silicone or other plastic material that can be worn around the forearm and elbow to help restrict movement of the tendon.
Now that's what I calls a comely lad!" continued Nabbem, pointing to the latter horseman; "none of your thin-faced, dark, strapping fellows like that Paul Clifford — Volume 06
Maybe one day I'll take a fancy to one of them and go off to live like a lady, and not be treated like a great strapping bosthoon of a hired hand.
Strapping the skis on the roof, we boarded the hovercraft in Dover.
Most of the soldiers slept, but 40 minutes before they reached the drop zone they were on their feet strapping their heavy rucksacks, filled with rations, water, ammunition and their weapons onto clips on their webbing.
The angel route can be easier for gathering together the initial funding you need but don't forget the term "bootstrapping". This Week's Best Start Ups and Mobile Apps: GoPlanIt.com, FitBit.com, REQALL. SearchMe, Sportacular - Cory Treffiletti - MediaBizBlogger
Do not use thin wire, metal or plastic strapping, or other material that could seriously cut you if you fell against it hard enough.
Might this involve walking tours and buggy rides along reconfigured paths, freshly coated with porous asphalt and punctuated with carefully structured picturesque garden views of heterosexual couples and their strapping, handsome kids in familial bliss, complemented with scenes of equally heterosexual deers, birds and bunnies? Archive 2007-02-01
It seems there's a perception that it's a girlie programme, unsuitable for a strapping bloke with a shaven head.
After the brief, we dash to complete one more task before strapping on the jet.
I could rent them out as help, or run a boardinghouse with all these strapping sons and handsome daughters to help me. 52449_CLARA
Furthermore, the nonparametric form of bootstrapping makes no assumptions about the underlying PDF.
Jack, a tall strapping man, was a hurler of note, captaining Kilgarvan when they were defeated by a disputed point by a Tralee team led by John Joe Sheehy in the 1918 final, played late in 1919.
If you've mastered traditional cambered boards, strapping into the Storm-R will force you to get all Yoda and Wired Top Stories
But a strapping Rarotonga vahine [1] -- she must have weighed two hundred and fifty -- brought up against him and got an arm around his neck. THE HEATHEN
It does not, for example, imply that you're "bootstrapping" the startup — that you're never going to take money from investors. Ramen Profitable
Satisfactorily, I knew we had something when even the strapping fieldhand dressed as William Wallace looked frightened. AMEN
And she was pleased, as well as angered, when she chanced to overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls. CHAPTER VII
‘Leave me alone,’ he said, walking off towards his room, unstrapping his pistols and pulling off his white shirt.
He's a strapping lad — already bigger than his father.
He was mad about football but not a strapping lad by any means, so he liked the notion of doing anything that would make him stronger.
He was a bricklayer—a big, strapping fellow.
A fine roan heifer was nibbling casually at a rackful of hay while a strapping calf sucked at her udder. Every living thing
Louis Brunn, of Butler County - once a young strapping man - developed a staph infection that was resistant to antibiotics.
Writers of this era [...] described the native as a robust youth with "gentile" characteristics, a kind of Jewish muzhik, or Russian peasant -- strapping, self-confident, and strong-spirited, as opposed to the stereotypical Diaspora Jew, who was pale, servile, and cowardly. David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me
Overworked and undersexed stay-at-home moms might be tempted by the strapping young buck with the weed whacker.
To the rest of us, someone capable of bootstrapping a whole world must appear a god or a monster.
Writers of this era [...] described the native as a robust youth with "gentile" characteristics, a kind of Jewish muzhik, or Russian peasant -- strapping, self-confident, and strong-spirited, as opposed to the stereotypical Diaspora Jew, who was pale, servile, and cowardly. David Shasha: What Israel Means to Me
One who wants can give and give and give — yet we seek that one soft word, one telling glance, from the one who withholds or unmans us from our strapping selfhood, whose neglect spurs such ranges of self-hatred or love. The August Heartbreak Suite of Sorrow's Poems
Use toothpaste applied with a dry cloth to get rid of scuff marks on vinyl furniture or strapping.
Now 66 years old, Mona is a tall strapping woman who was once a man.
Images of strapping masculinity are often slated as fascistic.
But it's not just Liam, now a strapping teenager, who is beaming on the pictures.
You have to wonder, is this big, strapping 34-year-old with hair the color of blue M&M's a serious literary man or the child of a postliterate visual culture? A Spooky But Literary 'Blair Witch Project'
He declared himself fit on Friday and, although he needed to play with a heavy strapping on his ankle, I decided to put him on the bench for security because we are still short of defenders.
He was a big strapping guy but short on brains.
Thankfully, I never discovered whether this gang of kids were bluffing or not because a strapping man who had been drinking in the pub opposite sauntered onto the street.
And it was in this reliable old phaeton that I took her back to my home, strapping her and her sizeable dowry to the buckboard.
While bootstrapping their economy with the fruits of Western labor and ingenuity, they gain the tools to prune democracy on the vine.
It was a very difficult time, but they are both strong strapping children now.
Detectives revealed that the cord on his main parachute had been deliberately severed, as was the strapping on his reserve chute.
a strapping boy of eighteen
He's a strapping lad — already bigger than his father.
But you can't artificially bolster the numbers of men truly called to it by "bootstrapping" it to what is really a separate vocation the diocesan priesthood. The "homosexualization" of the clergy in Latin America
The masquerade works a bit better for the strapping Janet McTeer, who plays Albert's fellow transvestite, a housepainter who goes by the name of Hubert Page and opens Albert's eyes to possibilities he'd never thought existed. 'Man on a Ledge' Does a Balancing Act
The messenger bent and scratched at his knee where the strapping chafed.
Some one who, for preference, was a big strapping lad but short on brains.
Thankfully, I never discovered whether this gang of kids were bluffing or not because a strapping man who had been drinking in the pub opposite sauntered on to the street.
The strapping jacket or the overlapping blazer worn out a new dior facette. Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion
When the treacherous currents mangled oil platform cables and pipes, companies would send the strapping Australian into the murky depths to sort them out. Times, Sunday Times
12: 37: Lanson Tang, the strapping deep-voiced lad from Potomac, nails "gaminerie" after his peers had missed three straight words. Spelling Bee semifinals, live
Wearing a wad of knee strapping that an Egyptian mummy would consider excessive, the Swede was not to be properly tested.
I watch, with my heart in my mouth, as Norman totters along the walkway but ironically, this time, it is not the Yorkshireman who has a problem but a strapping 25-year-old Swede who can go no further because of vertigo.
Libby was already strapping himself against the copilot's couch while studying the astrogational situation. The Past Through Tomorrow
Charles and his companion, a strapping young underkeeper, evidently anxious to distinguish himself, waited, listening intently in the intervals of silence. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
Heavy strapping on the ankle had its most negative impact on Wynne's start to yesterday's race, when he struggled for rhythm.
While bootstrapping their economy, they gain the tools to prune democracy on the vine.
Initial treatment options for heel pain caused by plantar fasciitis include anti-inflammatory medications, padding and strapping of the foot, and physical therapy.
The men folks were all away at work, and our postillion was a strapping girl of eighteen, who rode behind Braisted. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland
John grew into a strapping lad with the makings of a farmer, and with this in mind he spent his fourteenth year living with relatives on their farm in Dunmore, Co. Galway.
The strapping is used for a wide range of materials such as bricks, blocks, briquettes and tiles.
The teachers were always yelling and threatening everyone and strapping us with a leather belt.
Of course, scattered about, you will spot plenty of musclebound manual labourers and their strapping female companions. Times, Sunday Times
Strapping, handsome, lithe, with a killer smile, he's an actor who shows great range here, whether embodying the regret of a man whose life has disintegrated before his eyes or transforming into the loose-limbed hoofer that Valentin can be. Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Artist
Even though Klinck cuts one of those strapping, barrel-chested gym-junkie figures, his voice is like a gentle breeze.
The princess was led up the aisle by her groom's younger brother, Henry, Duke of York, a strapping boy of ten, more solidly built and more vigorous and outgoing than Arthur.
The thing was, both Richard and Howe were big, strapping guys.
He didn't finish out his first term -- something about going insane with rage, strapping on the green battlesuit, and attacking Superman -- having been impeached following the events of Superman/Batman #6 (March 2004). Annotations for Trinity issue #47 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
Petrova has heavy strapping on her right thigh and Clijsters is keen to move her around, but the Russian gets back on level terms with a strong service game.
If I were strapping a sword and a main gauche, that is. Ode to a silver hair found in my hairbrush:
As her eyes scanned the chemistry lecture theatre her attention was drawn to the strapping, sporty-looking student at the other side of the room.
Christine McGlin's twin boys, Christopher and Ross, are 14, strapping lads, but she still picks them up from school.
The meeting is symbolic of Coleman's transition from a top executive at a corporate monolith to founder of a bootstrapping software company.
These chests were beautifully decorated, at first mainly made of wood, with iron hinges, locks and strappings.
Cutting wood with such a saw is akin to strapping on slalom skis for a cross-country trip. Times, Sunday Times
The first thing you'll notice after strapping yourself in is that there's two of everything: two throttles, two propeller controls, two mixtures and two of each gauge.
It is believed Mr Howell was adjusting strapping on a stationary lorry when he was crushed by another lorry.
The driver, a heavily tattooed man in a flat cap, was strapping his daughter into her car seat. Times, Sunday Times
Or, for example, Aalto's s-chairs I use a lot, with the strapping.
Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping mustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk. The Blazed Trail
That limping at the end of races and the fact that he wears black strapping - similar to that once used by athletes to ease the cursed runner's knee - has left fans somewhat mystified for he has refused to dwell on the matter.
After unstrapping their quivers and slinging them onto his saddle, he paused for a moment, wrapped in thought, then went back to the still figures.
So save pounds on expensive waste disposal units by strapping Rover under your sink.
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that understrapping virtue of discretion;" "I am so apt to a _lapsus linguæ_" says this honest sinner. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
Those looking for signs of weakness, particularly in the area of a left knee that still carries a small strapping to address a tendonitis problem, found none.
The Castaways Quality Circle, comprising, looked at the method of strapping moulds together with the use of elastic bands.
They took her strapping off, looked at it and told her to wait, so she did.
Adventure racers bring bootstrapping to a new level.
Jane promptly fell in love, though, as she ruefully told Betty, it was unclear if it was with the strapping six-foot-two-inch Leo or some “romantic idea” of life in the exotic Dutch East Indies. A Covert Affair
A murder inquiry was launched after police discovered that the cord on his main parachute and the strapping on his reserve chute had been expertly and deliberately severed.
There was a fine strapping man, I would have thought in his late 20s or early 30s, lying outside O'Neill's shoe shop.
In the space of a couple of weeks, the one-time "earth mother" and macrobiotic devotee has transformed herself from willowy waif into sexy, strapping Glamazonian.
Other treatments you can carry out at home include strapping the damaged joint, for example using an elastic knee support.
He felt a searing pain in his side after hurling down a bouncer on Boxing Day, and was forced to bowl and bat on the following two days wearing heavy strapping and severely restricted because of the pain.
He has made no attempt to hide the injury since then with heavy strapping around the knee and his movement has been hampered. The Sun
They also raise the possibility of bootstrapping the residuals from the model, but without being confident about how well it will work for any particular problem.
These chests were beautifully decorated, at first mainly made of wood, with iron hinges, locks and strappings.
I always work in bootstrapping mode, addressing the first big issue, solving the problem, then advancing to the next one. Scripting News for 5/5/2008 « Scripting News Annex
What everyone was looking at (in miniature) was the red strapping of Sweeney's pads.

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