How to Use truss in a Sentence

truss

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  • Stuff the turkey with the stuffing and truss it together.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Smash 4 garlic cloves and place one inside each squab along with a thyme sprig, then truss the birds with butcher string.
    — Daniel Boulud, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2011
  • Then the two then abruptly left, closing the storage unit door with Riley still trussed up but alive.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Sure enough, Geillis is in there with Ian, who’s all trussed up like a sacrificial lamb.
    — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Adam then choked Zahau, removed her clothes, trussed her up and threw her off the balcony, according to the lawsuit.
    — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The ceilings are covered in California redwood and trussed with steel cables and the walls are gallery white.
    — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 21 June 2018
  • Season the duck cavity with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and pepper, add 1/3 of the prepared orange peel, and truss the duck by securing the legs, wings and neck skin to the body with kitchen twine.
    — Daniel Neman, sacbee, 26 June 2018
  • The waitresses, called bunnies, were trussed in brief satin suits with cotton fluffs fastened to their derrières.
    — Laura Mansnerus, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Mary and Josephine wrap each in a white paper packet, trussing it so quickly the string appears to fly into knots by itself.
    — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Using the back of a pickup truck as a gangplank, Mr. Ellis helped his mother into the boat, her belongings trussed up in garbage bags.
    — Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Being trussed up like this did not lend itself to much mobility.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Cured shows how a restaurant can play the nose-to-tail, farm-to-table game and mean it, starting with the meat locker in the foyer, with charcuterie trussed up like an Old World butcher shop.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2018
  • To, that is to say, the trussed-up, fringed, woven, crystal-strewn, peekaboo, more-is-more aesthetic that Olivier Rousteing has made his own.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • At the other end is the caricature, butt of flabby jokes, trussed in Las Vegas gaud, voice prostituted to a huge orchestra.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Of course, for our foremothers, who were required to be trussed up in this undergarment from dawn until dusk, the corset functioned as a sartorial prison cell.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In 1936, the wrists and ankles of a thirty-five-year-old interior decorator were found trussed with lamp cord and radio wire, with two neckties and a towel twisted around his neck.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 20 June 2019
  • Had Trump heeded those words, his presidency wouldn’t be so trussed up in the Gordian knot of his appalling lies, contradictions, and deceptions.
    — vanityfair.com, 18 May 2017
  • Michael Mullen’s costumes put the pansexual dancers in everything from brazen lingerie to innocent school uniforms, while keeping Cliff trussed in an uptight bow tie.
    — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
  • Once upon a time, after all, festive hair and makeup was gloriously high-maintenance—and while clean skin and windblown, wash and go waves may be ubiquitous these days, who wants to be out-sparkled by a glass of champagne or a trussed-up tree?
    — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2017
  • High-end Roman houses had only small glass windows, so the interiors were enlivened by frescoes—often of food or animals destined for the table, like the villa’s painting of ducks and trussed deer.
    — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • The dish, a specialty of Indonesia’s southern islands, is usually the centerpiece at big feasts: whole suckling pig stuffed with lemongrass and turmeric, trussed up, and slow cooked over coals until its crackling skin turns the color of caramel.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 22 May 2018
  • Nearly every scene is a static two-character dialogue, between pairs of cops, dispatchers, small-time crooks and, in Season 2, trussed-up husband-and-wife kidnap victims.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Markets are unbowed with their gleaming-eyed oyster shuckers, their butchers taking five minutes to truss each quail, their oozing Camembert cheeses prompting debate about ripeness, their rum baba cakes with little syringes to inject the rum.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
  • The outcry suggests that before leggings were popularized as streetwear, women had absolutely nothing comfortable to wear and were routinely forced to truss themselves into girdles and petticoats before wedging into a coach seat.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
  • Stuff the turkey with the stuffing and truss it together.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Smash 4 garlic cloves and place one inside each squab along with a thyme sprig, then truss the birds with butcher string.
    — Daniel Boulud, ELLE Decor, 17 Aug. 2011
  • Then the two then abruptly left, closing the storage unit door with Riley still trussed up but alive.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Sure enough, Geillis is in there with Ian, who’s all trussed up like a sacrificial lamb.
    — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Adam then choked Zahau, removed her clothes, trussed her up and threw her off the balcony, according to the lawsuit.
    — Robert Anglen, azcentral, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The ceilings are covered in California redwood and trussed with steel cables and the walls are gallery white.
    — Arizona Republic, azcentral, 21 June 2018
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truss

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  • But for two truss wires in front of him, he might have been ejected from the plane.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The six-stall barn has triple-height, truss beam arched ceilings and a tack room.
    — Lisa Zapalac, Houston Chronicle, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Taylor Wilson: And what is the plan for the steel truss structure that fell across the ship?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
  • A cloudless day had sun pouring in through the windows at the top of the arched, steel-truss roof.
    — Tim Booth, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Crews will need to do concrete and trail work before putting in the new steel-truss spans.
    — Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The remaining three iROSA's will be installed on the right side of the power truss.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The third set of six is being installed on the far left side of the truss, a segment known as port 6 or P6 for short.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Workers moved three of its four cranes off the job site, leaving the last one to place an end truss, which is a part of the roof.
    — Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The first array will be installed on the far left end of the station's backbone truss.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • An aide to the governor said that the bridge’s steel trusses may also be used to build up the reefs.
    — New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • But when the Dali toppled the Key Bridge, the roadway’s massive steel trusses fell onto the bow of the ship and trapped it.
    — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
  • So nobody seemed the least bit bothered that their beloved truss might never see the Seine.
    — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
  • In the world of gardening, a truss is simply a stem that holds tomatoes.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The cost of preserving the truss would have been expensive, O’Sullivan said.
    — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Workmen were up on a lighting truss, and sound waves from the Midmer-Losh could have thrown them off.
    — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The roof and walls are supported by 57 trusses that vary in thickness to support the overhang of the curved eave.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 24 July 2018
  • The modern cabin has a simple truss frame, two walls of windows, birch wood floors, and a small front deck.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The space station is equipped with four huge solar array wings, two on each side of the lab's power truss.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The bow-and-truss halls of the two-acre site are being converted into creative workspace.
    — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The two-way truss rod helps prevent warping and can be adjusted with an Allen wrench.
    — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Made of translucent fiberglass fabric coated with Teflon, and moving on a steel truss, the roof lets light in so the grass doesn't die.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 14 Feb. 2023
  • When the truss is completed, no one knows for sure whether the French will actually take it.
    — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The wood trusses involved in this latest collapse are not the top-chord hung trusses that were found at the gym and the thrift store, which both had flat roofs.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The 4,370-square-foot floor plan contains open-truss ceilings, four bedrooms and four bathrooms.
    — Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • Overhead truss lighting fills the hangar with hues of red, green and blue, and lighting from above simulates snowflakes.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • More than half of the trusses are set, and workers have installed large sections of the actual roofing in the east and west ends.
    — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 June 2017
  • The new dome would be a stronger steel truss structure with a smaller field, as opposed to the inflatable structure that collapsed in the spring of 2018.
    — Tad Vezner, Twin Cities, 23 July 2019
  • The estate sports an open timber truss design and is topped with a custom Italian slate roof.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This bridge's structural system is defined as an arched truss bridge with a deck suspended from the truss.
    — Adel Abdelnaby, CNN, 17 May 2021
  • As part of the renovation, though, an enormous truss was constructed that would arch over the area.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018

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