Example Sentences

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Why people are strapping cameras on their bodies to do chores.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Roofs are melting, residents are relocating to public cooling zones in underground air-raid shelters, and health workers are strapping frozen food to their too-hot hazmat suits.

From Salon • Jul. 16, 2022

In any case it seems that both the BOJ and the market are strapping in for a prolonged tussle.

From Reuters • Feb. 22, 2022

Well, whether you are strapping or sedentary, and no matter how much you hydrate, old age is coming for you — and youth, I’m learning as a worn-out thirtysomething, is wasted on the young.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2018

Most of the men are strapping fellows, slight and active.

From Carmen by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)