Sentence examples for strapped from inspiring English sources

Ninety-two corpses have been found in the Niger desert; mothers with braided hair and infants strapped to their backs, children with Qur'anic boards tucked under their arms, old men in prayer caps and long robes.

I had my trusty tent strapped to my backpack so setting up camp on the sand would be straightforward enough, but I also knew that the four stone walls – albeit slightly dilapidated and certainly not heated – of a bothy (a disused building maintained by volunteers for walkers' use) were just a couple of kilometres away.

The revelation came in a Dazed interview with the 28-year-old Transformers star, which was also staged as a performance called #INTERVIEW; after exchanging emails, LaBeouf and the writer Aimee Cliff met in person and sat face-to-face in silence for an hour, filming each other with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads.

Carmen Brown told the Dallas Morning News she had been waiting in line to get on the ride when the accident happened and saw the woman being strapped in.

He had been strapped into a van packed with explosives and was forced to drive the vehicle towards an army vehicle checkpoint while his family were held at gunpoint back in their Derry home.

Moments before he was put to death, Troy Davis lifted his head from the gurney to which he was strapped and looked the family of Mark MacPhail, the police officer for whose murder he was convicted, directly in the eyes.

In Sicily, a principal transit point for Italy, cash-strapped local authorities have struggled to offer even the most modest shelter.

Shut out of the bond markets and with bailout aid locked, cash-strapped Athens has been scraping state coffers to meet debt obligations and to pay wages and pensions.

As cash-strapped City firms have pulled their horns in, so they have ditched their internal development programmes and turned to outside providers, including Cass.

Cash-strapped Greece imports 57% of its gas supplies from Russia.

However, in Hungary's cash-strapped hospitals, such a move has proved divisive, as new doctors who have signed five-year handcuff agreements can now be earning more than senior specialists.