trussed
Example Sentences
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It’s a childish performance that is trussed up as an important meditation on the Declaration.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026
Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
A teenage boy is with them, his arm encased in a crude, homemade splint, trussed together with string.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2017
I felt like a trussed turkey as the time came to give the rope that tethered me to the oak a pull.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2017
I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher’s paper and trussed with string.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
