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

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

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2024

After test assembling every part the truss was dismantled and hoisted piece by piece to the top of the walls.

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

In addition to the giant tsunami wall, the facility is now equipped with new backup power systems, reinforced walls, pipes and trusses to boost resilience in an earthquake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Gehry introduced clerestory windows, skylights, large exposed trusses, raw concrete floors and metal cladding, elevating the utilitarian spaces without erasing their industrial character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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

According to a report from NPR, engineers will use “surgical precision” to cut the steel trusses trapping the container, which will then be “thrust away from the Dali” when explosives are detonated.

From Salon ● May 12, 2024

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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2017

Facing them were two Keepers, and next to them, trussed up like a lumpy package on the floor, was Ton-Ton.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

There were pathways built onto the top of the trussing, places for the bridge workers to get out to the cables and repair them.

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