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truss

[truhs] / trʌs /


NOUN
framework
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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

For the longest vase-life, cut blooms when three-quarters of the truss is open.

From Seattle Times May 4, 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

Her face still flushed, she pushed her hair back with one hand, and resumed lacing up the truss on the dummy.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

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

It took six semi-trucks to delivery all the required material, including 40,000 pounds of gear, scenery and structural trusses.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2025

George Post’s design called for twenty-two trusses, each weighing two hundred tons.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

In front of us someone all trussed up in a harness and blue jumpsuit leaps into the void, and disappears down the side of the tower never to be seen again.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

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

I had a sudden urge to walk out over the trussing and lean over the water, to declare myself to the world.

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




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