Trussed is an English word with synonyms like tied or bound. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Trussed meaning
simple past and past participle of truss
Using Trussed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of truss
- Useful related words include: tied, bound.
Context around Trussed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trussed
- In this selection, "trussed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, turkey, himself and rafter stand out and add context to how "trussed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 3po a trussed up han and billingham s trussed up body. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trussed" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trussed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
She looks at "the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby. (11 words)
Trussed up in a carpet, Miklós Jr. was immediately driven to the airport and flown to Germany to serve as a hostage. (22 words)
As for the ‘Prime Minister’, in office but not in power, Johnson’s disingenuous mendacity seems to have trussed himself up like a turkey ready for Christmas. (27 words)
After Mr Billingham's trussed-up body was found buried in the garden of the house he shared with Beal, four months after he had gone 'missing,' Ms Farden said: 'Why would she want to kill him? (37 words)
Women used to tell Pratt that her scenes of domesticity made them cry, perhaps because she was painting their world—the trussed turkey, the unkempt bed—with the tender and careful eye of high art. (35 words)
As the Ewoks prepare to turn Han, Luke and Chewy into a feast to honor their newly discovered “god”, C-3PO, a trussed-up Han supplies a one-liner that perfectly encapsulates the precarious situation. (35 words)
After Mr Billingham's trussed-up body was found buried in the garden of the house he shared with Beal, four months after he had gone 'missing,' Ms Farden said: 'Why would she want to kill him? (37 words)
Example sentences (7)
Women used to tell Pratt that her scenes of domesticity made them cry, perhaps because she was painting their world—the trussed turkey, the unkempt bed—with the tender and careful eye of high art.
After Mr Billingham's trussed-up body was found buried in the garden of the house he shared with Beal, four months after he had gone 'missing,' Ms Farden said: 'Why would she want to kill him?
As for the ‘Prime Minister’, in office but not in power, Johnson’s disingenuous mendacity seems to have trussed himself up like a turkey ready for Christmas.
As the Ewoks prepare to turn Han, Luke and Chewy into a feast to honor their newly discovered “god”, C-3PO, a trussed-up Han supplies a one-liner that perfectly encapsulates the precarious situation.
In the case of trussed rafter roofs, they are sometimes lined with wooden ceilings in three sections like those that survive at Ely and Peterborough cathedrals in England.
She looks at "the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby.
Trussed up in a carpet, Miklós Jr. was immediately driven to the airport and flown to Germany to serve as a hostage.