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It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Or The French Laundry’s Thomas Keller, who gently speaks to Carmy about the profound spirituality of their profession and the legacy he’s continuing, all while teaching him how to truss a chicken.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2024

“We got the best truss guy in the city,” said Danielle Kramer, the company’s chief operating officer.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The software used by the engineers at the truss manufacturing plant allowed the designer to make the trusses stiffer than an old-fashioned starched shirt collar.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

“They won’t let me. The lieutenant said I slipped the truss on purpose.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

On the second floor, a generous dining space and an open kitchen with marble surfaces, warm-wood cabinetry, and one of the building’s original steel trusses await.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

Repairs to 40,000 square feet of the roof and the replacement of metal roof trusses are under way, Fisher said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

Agnoli, who worked as a carpenter prior to entering architecture, used long spans of wood to create massive trusses and spiraling nautilus shapesand formed brick into catenary arches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

The roof is long gone and huge timber roof trusses that once supported it have been stacked up in the street outside.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

Once the beams were in place a windlass was set on top of them to hoist the rest of the timber and help in setting up the trusses.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay

It’s a childish performance that is trussed up as an important meditation on the Declaration.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

"He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see."

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023

Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023

The 69th annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant began on a Monday just before 7 a.m. with three young women in long colorful dresses and aprons standing over a trio of trussed, bleating sheep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

“They will be taking her down the gangplank on a stretcher tomorrow, trussed up like a parcel.”

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

PSSL: Many of PSSL’s Black Friday deals are for pro lighting and trussing, but one product in particular is worth noting: it’s offering the MXL Revelation Solo Tube Condenser Microphone for only $299.99.

From The Verge ● Nov. 22, 2017

In fact, Mr. Waxman said, a great turkey needn’t involve an all-day roasting marathon, or a battery of treatments such as brining, trussing and lacquering.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2015

Without trussing, the bird would just lie there, limp and sloppy-looking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014

Together weighing over 12 tons and measuring 90 and 100 feet long, they required over 30 hoists and 140 feet of trussing to raise them so that they appear to be soaring through the cathedral.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014

On either side of us the cars hissed past; red on the left and white on the right, the lanes encased by thin metal trussing that stretched out from the walkway.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini