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

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

A teenage boy is with them, his arm encased in a crude, homemade splint, trussed together with string.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2017

In less than a minute he too was lying on the ground, trussed so that he could not move, and before Lancelot woke the whole pageant had disappeared.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White