Sentence examples for hasp from inspiring English sources

[26] The cobwebs are dusted off, the rusty padlock smashed, the hasp pulled back, and the lid opened.

An independent candidate standing against Jack Straw in the coming election, Bushra Irfan, has already been told by the local election office that she will not be able to exercise her right to place her own seals on the ballot boxes, as the hasp only has room for the council's seals.

The room's door should have three things: a peephole, a chain or a flop-over hasp and a deadbolt.

The park attendant locked the door with a padlock, Mr. Benepe said, but the day after the attack the lock was still on the door, possibly indicating that the shackle did not go through the hasp on the sliding bolt lock properly.

The Obama Administration's efforts on behalf of homeowners — known unfortunately as HAMP, HARP, and HASP — have all suffered for lack of what Durbin's bill would have created: a mechanism to force the banks to deal.

Jules, a blacksmith, works with a hand-cranked bellows and a battered metal stove, hammering out hasps and hinges with an ease and precision that represent generations of handed-down know-how.

The Act, which has never before been seen in the former colonies, had arrived from London the previous afternoon, travelling in its own premium economy seat in a black metal case with two small brass padlocks on its hasps, between two Parliamentary couriers, David Prior and Lara Artemis, who were charged with its safe passage.

After the fearsome struggle in which Beowulf rips off Grendel's arm and shoulder, the monster flees, "hasped and hooped and hirpling with pain".

The result is a nine-foot by nine-foot iron cage, with an elaborate system of locks and hasps.

He listened in the dark to the dull scrape of the piece of two-by-four being lifted from the iron hasps.