trussin a sentence
truss as in: the roof's trusses
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The same trusses carry the weight of the roof and the ceiling.trusses = a rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members that supports another structural form
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The rear third was stacked with fresh straw, bales all the way to the trusses.† (source)
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It sounded like trussed — what was done to raw turkeys with skewers and pieces of string.† (source)trussed = a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure
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Now she rests in a hospital room, trussed up in a contraption that looks more like a torture device than a bed.† (source)
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She had left Dana Matherson stripped down to his underpants and trussed to the flagpole in front of the administration building at Trace Middle School.† (source)
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The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching.† (source)
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He turned: Hagrid was bound and trussed, tied to a tree nearby.† (source)trussed = a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure
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Kingsland whispered to me, "Don't truss dat mon, no way."† (source)
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The monk in back was moaning now, struggling against his trusses.† (source)
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"Wait a minute, we'll make him tidy first," and Lizaveta Petrovna laid the red wobbling thing on the bed, began untrussing and trussing up the baby, lifting it up and turning it over with one finger and powdering it with something.† (source)
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At first he's surprised to see me trussed up, then he shrugs and doesn't look at me anymore.† (source)
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At which point I would hardly be needed, for, without guards, the captain and crew could quickly free themselves and truss up the pirates.† (source)
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Inside this were large pavilions of a grayish fabric that looked like plastic, supported by metal trusses in such a way that each reared up, and was airy within, and was resistant to the wind and rain.† (source)
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Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.† (source)
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Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand.† (source)
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Once I'm there I can survive by stealing loaves of French bread and salami from the local Safeway supermarket, and sleep on Johnson's Beach while listening to the sounds of the cars rumbling across the old evergreen Parker truss bridge that leads into the city.† (source)
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Lads, you won't mind if I truss you up like a Christmas goose.
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truss = tie
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