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as in belt
a narrow and usually flat piece of a material that is used for fastening, holding together, or wrapping something She had the nervous habit of fiddling with the strap of her watch.

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Recent Examples of strap
Noun
The fabric is breathable and silky and the straps are adjustable, so there’s no digging at the legs or weird seams under your clothes. Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025 Meanwhile, straps on an Omega Seamaster, as functional and lethal as its owner. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
Kids 5 to 13, for instance, can strap on a pair during Blizzard Buddies day camp, while anglers can use them to access the north fork of the Gallatin River for year-round fly-fishing without the crowds. Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025 The device famously introduced stereoscopic 3D, requiring players to strap into a clunky headset to experience its groundbreaking (and headache-inducing) parallax effects decades before the VR boom of the 2010s. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for strap
Recent Examples of Synonyms for strap
Noun
  • O’Connell said the inspector found more than 20 belts on the Mamba did not lock as required.
    Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Godard has some shorts under his belt.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Karri raised a couple of million pounds in funding last October to develop this model, and put it to good use by roping in legendary agency Pentagram for its industrial design inputs.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2025
  • With two men on and the game tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth, Duran roped a hard line drive into the right-center gap, which rolled into the triangle between center fielder Oneil Cruz and right fielder Alexander Canario.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Editing was done by spooling the recording from one reel to another, cutting out the unwanted elements with a razor blade, and cello-taping the remaining tape back together.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Label dishes clearly and note reheating instructions on masking tape.
    Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Their separation came five years after the couple were entangled in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal, pleading guilty to wire and mail fraud related to paying hundreds of thousands in bribes to get their daughters into the University of Southern California.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Students will learn to wire avionics as well as to troubleshoot and repair wiring issues.
    Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The post 9/11 blunders in which Cheney played a part can be tied to the rise of ISIS, perennial instability in the Middle East, the migrant crisis and the crushing debt burden ($38 trillion and counting) that looms over the US economy.
    Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This was tied at 20-20 through 14 minutes, until the game went tilt with a 20-5 Aztecs run to close the half.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The silhouette featured an almond toe and stacked block heel, while the shaft made a unique statement with cinching at the ankle, a general looseness up the leg and then a lace threaded through the circumference about three-quarters of the way up, knotted in a bow as a dainty embellishment.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Alphabet spent just enough and grew enough to thread the needle for a post-earnings stock advance of more than 8%.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2025

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“Strap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strap. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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