strapped

past tense of strap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for strapped
Verb
  • The game was tied with two outs in the third when Arenado's 22nd home run of the season put the Diamondbacks on top 3-1.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The Royals quickly tied the game in the bottom of the first inning.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For instance, a very slender friend of ours had come to get one more hole punched in her belt by Susie and was now walking around chatting with people, her belt cinched nice and tight.
    Lydia Davis, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The original Liu cinched waist raincoat has been updated in tonal burgundy, while the Athena style comes in navy blue and black with butter yellow sleeve detailing.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The sow bounded away a few feet and then glanced back at him.
    Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Although all of the solar system’s planets with atmospheres have wave-spawning disturbances, only Saturn churns them out looking like polygons, geometric shapes bounded by straight lines.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • On fourth-and-1 at the New England 45-yard line early in the fourth quarter, Lock faked a handoff, booted left and threaded a short pass through the arms of defensive tackle Milton Williams to Smith-Njigba, who took over from there.
    Andrew Destin, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Food and drink Hints of the Meiji Era (1868-1912), the period in which the prison was built, are threaded through the hotel.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
    Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • This wasn’t true, but the core idea was tethered to a real phenomenon.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
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“Strapped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strapped. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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