(1) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
(2) Security will include a police and military presence and private security guards carrying out several layers of checks, including individual body searches using metal detectors, there will be video surveillance cameras and a ban on rucksacks, motorcycle helmets and banners with political or offensive messages.
(3) Like rucksack wearers, Friedrich's figures are often seen from behind, which is why they are known as ruckenfigur .
(4) He sports a wedge haircut like the England star Raheem Sterling, wears tight black leggings and sleeves that he pulls over his hands as he talks, offset with a bright pink rucksack.
(5) The continuous drip treatment was made possible by a specially designed infusion rucksack 19% of the cases still showed a moderate effect on the walking capacity.
(6) Now, this switch in fashion has worked out well for ruckers' backs, but it has been less beneficial to every body part of everyone else because, as previously discussed, when a rucksack goes on both shoulders it instantly becomes invisible to the rucker and extremely dangerous to everyone else.
(7) For women, there is also a high fashion motivation for adopting the rucksack, derived from the trend for luxury sportswear.
(8) Last year she went backpacking in eastern Europe (complete with maple leaf on her rucksack so as not to be mistaken for an American).
(9) Then, when I got into the hearing room, I carefully took it out of the rucksack and hid it under my chair.
(10) He appears with a big pair of headphones round his neck and a black rucksack over his shoulders.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) For a start, I never get whacked in the face by a French schoolchild's rucksack and, secondly, it is most cheering to see them en masse from a distance because they look like a pack of Santas, on their way to a meeting.
(13) Video footage from Brussels showed a man lying on the ground at a tram stop holding a rucksack over the tracks as a bomb-disposal robot inspected him.
(14) A courier can travel from Vietnam to South Africa, pack rhino horns into his rucksack and return within 24 hours.
(15) I'm not sure this is what Jack Kerouac meant when he called for "a rucksack revolution".
(16) If you don't know the name, you will know the rucksack.
(17) The only logical explanation here is that rucksacks must be magical and in possession of some special sparkly quality that renders them weightless and invisible to all those who sport them.
(18) Abedi had carried a metal box containing “well packed” explosives, metal nuts and screws in a box probably inside a Karrimor rucksack, the leaked details showed.
(19) It said he had planned to blow up his car but also had 12 pipe bombs strapped to his body, and a bomb in a rucksack.
(20) Beside them, the belongings of the dead passengers have been piled in heaps: dozens of suitcases, rucksacks, a red summer hat, a broken laptop and a stuffed toy monkey.
Strap
Definition:
(n.) A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
(n.) Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
(n.) A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.
(n.) A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
(n.) A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
(n.) A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
(n.) The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
(n.) The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
(n.) A shoulder strap. See under Shoulder.
(v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
(v. t.) To fasten or bind with a strap.
(v. t.) To sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
(2) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
(3) Tragedy was averted because there was a little delay as the prayers did not commence in earnest and the bomb strapped to the body of the girl went off and killed her,” he added.
(4) The cell shape varied greatly and included dendritic, stellated and strap-shaped forms as well as multinucleated giant cells, similar to those of juvenile melanomatas.
(5) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(6) To be effective, strapping must adhere to the entire abdominal wall rather than to the edges of the incision; it must also be permeable to body fluids and well tolerated.
(7) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(8) A single anatomic unit is rebuilt, transferring a strong new muscle strap with ideal supporting vectors and leaving scars in natural creases.
(9) Rare is the interview that concludes with the subject pinging one’s bra strap.
(10) The City is most focused on the investigation begun in April 2009 into the bank before it was rescued by the taxpayer following the takeover of ABN Amro, which left it crippled with bad debts and strapped for cash after paying too much for the bank just as the credit crunch began.
(11) The cash-strapped HMV retail chain clinched a deal on Friday to sell its Waterstone's bookshops to the Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53m.
(12) They believed the film strips strapped around his forearm, which they called a sleeve, would stimulate his muscles to make those movements a physical reality.
(13) It’s easy money for cash-strapped African treasuries.
(14) These eventrations are enormous in Africa because the post-partum women do not make active movements to develop again the abdominal strap.
(15) Two hundred consecutive patients with arthrographically verified rupture of one or both of the lateral ankle ligaments were allocated to treatment with either an operation and a walking cast, walking cast alone, or strapping with an inelastic tape - all for 5 weeks.
(16) The dermal-subdermal plexus is continuous across the midline and this contralateral pathway is supplied chiefly from branches of the superior thyroid artery, facial artery, and myocutaneous perforators of the strap muscles.
(17) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
(18) The extra cost of the deployment is estimated at $35bn, at a time when the US is strapped for cash because of the recession.
(19) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
(20) Ever since I first strapped a radio to my bag, people have been warning me that the cycle courier is an endangered species.