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Meanings of strapping in English
Usage of strapping in English
1
They were strapping teenagers who had learned to notice, and fear, difference.
2
The forest we walked through now was really just a strapping adolescent.
3
We're strapping ourselves in when word comes across the radio from Marika.
4
He was tall and strapping, a seven-year veteran of the Special Forces.
5
He gave me a good strapping, and I went home in rebellion.
6
If I get bored, I can always take a strapping young lover.
7
He was a strapping big German, with something wrong in his brain.
8
After inspecting the aircraft and strapping in we started the takeoff checklist.
9
The bags were just too thick for any kind of controlled strapping.
10
He approached her, her strapping son, in a fine coat carelessly worn.
11
He was a strapping giant of a heathen with a bad reputation.
12
She was a strapping big Scotch lassie, and very fond of Bert.
13
She was strapping her school satchel across her back like a knapsack.
14
Holly walked rapidly into the cockpit, strapping herself into the pilots chair.
15
Two agents in hazmat suits were strapping Javad's corpse to a gurney.
16
Bands of iron armour had been hacked away leaving hanging leather strapping.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Strapping through the time
Strapping across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common