Thin strips of material used in building construction; the process of installing such strips.
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Examples for "strapping"
Examples for "strapping"
1They were strapping teenagers who had learned to notice, and fear, difference.
2The forest we walked through now was really just a strapping adolescent.
3We're strapping ourselves in when word comes across the radio from Marika.
4He was tall and strapping, a seven-year veteran of the Special Forces.
5He gave me a good strapping, and I went home in rebellion.
1A community that sees itself as under siege battens down the hatches.
2Some of them had been strengthened with battens lashed transversely over the canvas.
3Vietnam now battens down the hatches in preparation for Haiyan's landfall.
4A stonemason and the bricklayer's gaffer are swiping at each other with battens.
5He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
1The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
2Then a furring system is put on and another layer of metal, lathing and plastering.
3Still, some men lived very well out of furring.
4Vascular dementia, the artery-furring sort, is the second biggest dementia disease group by numbers of sufferers.
5There the people were more densely settled, the hinterland was small, and many therefore could not go furring.