Thin strips of material used in building construction; the process of installing such strips.
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Examples for "strapping "
Examples for "strapping "
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.
1 A community that sees itself as under siege battens down the hatches.
2 Some of them had been strengthened with battens lashed transversely over the canvas.
3 Vietnam now battens down the hatches in preparation for Haiyan's landfall.
4 A stonemason and the bricklayer's gaffer are swiping at each other with battens .
5 He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.
1 The pine paneling was gone from the walls leaving just the furring strips.
2 Then a furring system is put on and another layer of metal, lathing and plastering.
3 Still, some men lived very well out of furring .
4 Vascular dementia, the artery - furring sort, is the second biggest dementia disease group by numbers of sufferers.
5 There the people were more densely settled, the hinterland was small, and many therefore could not go furring .
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