truss

An aluminum truss provided infrastructure, and custom joints, gimbals and animatronics gave the astronaut life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

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

Absent those images, watching Lois debone, stuff and truss up a turducken would be mouthwatering.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2024

The wing is attached to the top of the fuselage and braced by a truss from the bottom of the fuselage.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

The flesh swollen and discolored in the truss of the black stitching.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

Davis took this approach in the three-story atrium of his Calle del Sierra Residence in Stinson Beach, which is visually connected on all levels, showcasing exposed timber trusses and open lofts reachable via intricate ladders.

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

The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Two, trussed onto hooks, hung in each pot sent down to the sea bottom, where their carcasses would be picked to the bone by snow crab.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2022

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

If you've ever roasted a whole chicken for dinner, or tackled the big task of roasting the turkey for Thanksgiving, you probably know the importance of tying up the bird, or "trussing."

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2014

If anything, Mr. Silver’s notions of kinship as a curse are more baldly stated than usual, without typical apocalyptic embellishments like cannibalism, an encroaching ice age or the trussing up of fallen angels.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2011

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