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Strapping in sentence

22 examples of Strapping in a sentence

Here's a paraplegic patient, walking by strapping on these exoskeletons.
When I was 15 years old, I went from being what I think was a strapping young athlete, over four months, slowly wasting away until I was basically a famine victim with an unquenchable thirst.
My strapping, cool dad with the falsetto singing voice had to move into a facility for round-the-clock care when he was just 65.
The plot, about mistaken identity, payroll robbery and murder, is as trite and perfunctory as you'd expect it to be in a 1930s low-budget western, but Wayne's strapping good looks, easygoing charm and way with a line go a long way to making this more enjoyable.
Flashman is supposed to be a big strapping fellow).
Matt Moore (Pickford was married to his brother, Owen Moore) is the love interest, and is good as the strapping island lad.
A strapping and vampiric lad, the Devil brings out Sister Maria's inner desires for both sex and blood.
Strapping tall blond Bo Svenson is the pilot who used his P-51 Mustang to visit his girlfriend.
Shoot 'em up is quite possibly the best action movie I have seen so far mix in Broads, Bullets, and a Hardcore selection of rock music like Ace of Spades by Motorhead, If You Want Blood by ACDC and Zen by Strapping Young Lad and you have a movie you can put on even when your not really paying attention, just non stop action all the way through such as your typical "Total Recall" or "Crank" films.
If you are so inclined, you can enjoy a couple of strapping, greased-up muscleboys wrestling in a bar; live cockfighting; piranha attacks; occasional cannibalism; a weird tribal ritual involving grass skirts and Halloween 'spooky-hands'; and copious amounts of completely unnecessary female nudity, stripping, girl-on-girl action, and the usual titillating 'rape' scenes.
Ironically, director Apted misses few opportunities to denude his leading lady, but when the story conspires a reason for the strapping Neeson to shed his clothes, tellingly Apted suddenly becomes coy with showing nudity.
It came in the form of a young Belgian judge, a Brussels prosecutor, four strapping police officers, and a court clerk, who arrived in this dusty capital to investigate charges filed against Habré in a Belgian court pursuant to that country's long-arm anti-atrocity law, which permits prosecution of the worst human rights crimes no matter where they took place.
A few moments later, eight strapping fellows appeared silently, their faces like masks, and dragged us down into their fearsome machine.
But, hardly had the oedema gone down to some extent, than the two savants thought fit to put back the limb in the apparatus, strapping it tighter to hasten matters.
This young lady, a strapping Franc-Comtoise, extremely well made, and dressed in the style calculated to give tone to a cafe, had already said twice, in a low voice so modulated that only Julien should hear her: 'Sir!
The old mercer looked at the strapping blade, seeking among her recollections and finding nothing, while Therese placidly observed the scene.
The sanguineous temperament of this strapping fellow, his full voice and jovial laughter, troubled the young woman and threw her into a sort of nervous anguish.
Thou must know that a certain widow, fair, young, independent, and rich, and above all free and easy, fell in love with a sturdy strapping young lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of brotherly remonstrance, 'I am surprised, senora, and not without good reason, that a woman of such high standing, so fair, and so rich as you are, should have fallen in love with such a mean, low, stupid fellow as So-and-so, when in this house there are so many masters, graduates, and divinity students from among whom you might choose as if they were a lot of pears, saying this one I'll take, that I won't take;' but she replied to him with great sprightliness and candour, 'My dear sir, you are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned, if you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he seems; because for all I want with him he knows as much and more philosophy than Aristotle.'
Had Mr. Pickwick been alone, these multiplied obstacles would have completely put an end to the pursuit at once, but old Wardle was not to be so easily daunted; and he laid about him with such hearty good-will, cuffing this man, and pushing that; strapping a buckle here, and taking in a link there, that the chaise was ready in a much shorter time than could reasonably have been expected, under so many difficulties.
For the hospital was in the hands of a hurrying crowd, who were strapping up bedding and cooking-pots, lamps and linen, calling to one another up and down the staircases in subdued voices, and bringing the sick from the upper wards as ants bring eggs out of a broken hill, six or eight to each man some holding bunches of marigold flowers in their hands, and pausing to mutter prayers at each step, others peering fearfully into the dispensary, and yet others drawing water from the well and pouring it out around the beds.
And that he should have such a strapping son and heir to carry on the race of Avon!
I have a fine, strapping girl myself; she's just twenty, and when a girl of that age comes here I think of her, and I don't care if it's a great lady or a vagabond, I can't help feeling it a bit.