Sentence examples for straps from inspiring English sources

There were mint-green pumps, polka-dot kitten heels with ankle straps, pointy-toed brown Dries Van Noten rip-offs and, my favourite, a red and white candy-striped pair with a buckle.

I cut lengths for the straps from a piece of tougher hide.

Outlining the nature of the allegations, Smith told the inquiry that as well as making children eat vomit when they were ill, nuns used sticks, straps and kettle flexes to beat their young charges.

I could feel deft fingers fluttering around me, fastening straps and hoisting sagging tights.

Theory's navy suede version is a little more on the money, what with its cross straps and pinched waist, although it's a little impractical if you planned on working with flour while wearing it.

It's a princess-moment frock with modest off-the-shoulder straps, a huge train and Victorian-style veil, all finished with a Kate Middleton blow-dry.

Then she attached extra long white bra straps to the top.

She checks the straps of the calipers that help her to walk, reaches for her stick, and then stands.

You can buy "I hate Hillary" T-shirts, mugs, mouse-mats and even jock-straps.

As for the war, though the Nazis had unleashed atrocities on Russia, "I remember myself in my captain's shoulder-straps and the forward march of my battery through East Prussia, enshrouded in fire, and I say: 'So were we any better?'" In one poem, "Prussian Nights", he wrote The little daughter's on the mattress, Dead.

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