STRAP in a Sentence

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For STRAP, below is one of 39 sentences:
The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.

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 Meanings and Examples of STRAP
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strap
 n.  belt; band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  Uncertainly, Mose looked from the sergeant to Scarlett and she, splashing through the mud, close to the passing wheels, caught at Moses' stirrup strap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  "Some day, I'm going to take a strap to that little wench," thought Scarlett savagely, hurrying down the stairs to meet her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  There was a small portmanteau in the room, and this he pulled out and began to strap.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
4  'For a coffin first, and a porochial funeral afterwards,' replied Mr. Bumble, fastening the strap of the leathern pocket-book: which, like himself, was very corpulent.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  If you want Eliza's mind improved, Governor, you do it yourself with a strap.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
6  He was wearing the white Horse Guard's cap and a military overcoat with a whip hanging over his shoulder by a thin strap.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
7  Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about unbuckling one of the straps.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
8  People had no straps to their boots, they had no boots.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
9  Pile our things on her, while I get off these confounded skates, cried Laurie, wrapping his coat round Amy, and tugging away at the straps which never seemed so intricate before.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER EIGHT
10  In bespeaking his sea-outfit, he orders bell-buttons to his waistcoats; straps to his canvas trowsers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
11  The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIII
12  After all, I remained up there, repeatedly unlocking and unstrapping my small portmanteau and locking and strapping it up again, until Biddy called to me that I was late.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
13  He was a strapping young fellow in the early twenties then, handsome, warm-hearted, and full of life, and he came to us like a miracle in the midst of that grim business.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
14  The huntsmen got the fox, but stayed there a long time without strapping it to the saddle.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
15  Hilda arrived in good time on Thursday morning, in a nimble two-seater car, with her suit-case strapped firmly behind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Nancy gripped the strap of her beach bag.
2  The strap of my bag is broken.
3  The camera was fitted with a strap.
4  My camera strap has broken.
5  The strap has a fluorescent coating that glows in the dark.
6  To keep the helmet in position, fasten the strap beneath the chin.
7  She pulled the strap of her nightgown onto her shoulder.
8  After the brace is on, the strap is tightened to pull the foot into a better position.
9  The strap was broke off of it, but, barring that, it was a good enough leg, though it was too long for me and not long enough for Jim, and we couldn't find the other one, though we hunted all around.
10  Take it to your drycleaner or seamstress; have a removable shoulder strap added, to free up your hands.
11  The straps hold the baby in securely.
12  The bag comes with detachable straps.
13  It's a frame rucksack with a belt and padded shoulder straps.
14  The bags have adjustable shoulder straps.
15  He's a strapping lad — already bigger than his father.