How to Use truss in a Sentence

truss

1 of 2 verb

• She stuffed and trussed the duck.
• Some are speckled with herbs, many are trussed and two come with a wedge of citrus.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2025
• Watching Julia truss a goose or dress a salad niçoise felt like a salve.
  — Julie Cohen, Variety, 5 Sep. 2021
• Being trussed up like this did not lend itself to much mobility.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2020
• 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
• On days when no one is visiting, in lieu of human flesh, large, heavy hunks of fatty pork trussed up with string hang from the rafters.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Sure enough, Geillis is in there with Ian, who’s all trussed up like a sacrificial lamb.
  — Elizabeth Angell, Town & Country, 11 Dec. 2017
• Rolling around inside my coffin would be a gigantic ball of hair trussed by a Möbius strip of fingernail.
  — Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• Le Mec and his people knock Rory out with tranquilizers and truss her up by her wings to harvest her feathers.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Movement of sound, decor, staging, trussing and lighting equipment happens through cargo boats via the waterways, and that comes at a premium.
  — Praachi Raniwala, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• In their center, Zoya drew Gorey-esque little boys, one trussed in rope, the other naked and chubby like a Renaissance putto.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
• 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
• For the last 15 or so years, celebrities have been, in general, more trussed up, as red carpets have become a heightened economic prospective for stars and designers alike.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
• 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
• These joints would contain several different muscles, cut and trussed into a neat shape, that looks handsome on the plate, lends well to roasting, and allows thin, cohesive slices of meat to be cut from the cooked product.
  — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s all trussed up in the delectable package of Anglophilia, with its odes to shadowy libraries, pub trips, endless cups of tea, and the pedestrian ease of navigating London.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Riffing on celebratory holiday spreads from her childhood, Michelle Ashurov (Reverie Deli) trusses a savory caterpillar with swirling blini, herbed butter, and trout roe.
  — Ingu Chen, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Dec. 2025

truss

2 of 2 noun

• 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
• 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
• Crews removed the overhead sign truss and moved it off the road along the shoulder.
  — Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2026
• In the world of gardening, a truss is simply a stem that holds tomatoes.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
• The first array will be installed on the far left end of the station's backbone truss.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 June 2021
• So nobody seemed the least bit bothered that their beloved truss might never see the Seine.
  — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 2021
• Cranes then drop the steel trusses onto barges floating below.
  — Joseph Berger, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Lightweight trusses tend to collapse faster than heavy-duty ones.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 29 May 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
• 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 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 two-way truss rod helps prevent warping and can be adjusted with an Allen wrench.
  — Henry Robertson, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2018
• The bow-and-truss halls of the two-acre site are being converted into creative workspace.
  — Patric Kuh, Los Angeles Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The house also has been updated with open trusses so there are no poles in the basement, and the main floor is wide open.
  — Saleema Syed, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
• In the 1900s planning began to replace this iron truss style bridge.
  — IndyStar, 6 Mar. 2026
• The estate sports an open timber truss design and is topped with a custom Italian slate roof.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 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
• When the truss is completed, no one knows for sure whether the French will actually take it.
  — Shawn McCreesh, Curbed, 17 Aug. 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
• Panicked at the sight of dead bodies hanging from bridge trusses, Daisy goes to Garth again.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
• The cost of preserving the truss would have been expensive, O’Sullivan said.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The space station's main truss and two giant solar arrays can be seen, as well as the blue arc of the Earth below.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 11 Jan. 2026
• The space station's main truss and two giant solar arrays can be seen, as well as the blue arc of the Earth below.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Jan. 2026
• The space station's main truss and two giant solar arrays can be seen, as well as the blue arc of the Earth below.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 12 Jan. 2026
• The space station's main truss and two giant solar arrays can be seen, as well as the blue arc of the Earth below.
  — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Jan. 2026
• The neck and fretboard are glued together, with a steel truss rod sandwiched inside the two components.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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