trussed

Example Sentences

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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

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

Though slight of build, she’s a match for every lunk in her path, to the point where I fully expected her to show up at state Police Headquarters with her remaining adversaries trussed like turkeys.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

He might have taken some comfort in that if he had not been trussed up like a goose and lashed to a saddle.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin