Sentence examples for would be strapped from inspiring English sources

He is in no financial position to take on the home himself and I would be strapped if I did".

Under SensorNet, such units would be strapped to cellphone towers, where they would get solid physical support and cheap, dependable electric power.

If you were told that, less than a couple of hours later, the same fellow would be strapped into the cockpit of a striding cyberweapon, pulverizing all who draw near, like Jeff Bridges at the end of "Iron Man," you'd laugh.

Shepard had told him days before that this new recorder, called a body Nagra, would be strapped on to his back under his shirt.

"This would be more than have ever flown before," says Baker, "some would be strapped on couches on the floor – this really would have been an emergency return".

Just imagine the world without it; there'd be Ethernet running everywhere, people would be strapped to their desks all day, and there wouldn't be anything for crazy people to swear they were allergic to.

"I felt as if I'd been strapped to a roller coaster," Spiegelman writes: "It was killed one day and resuscitated the next.

He looked gaunt, sickly and exhausted, like a man who'd been strapped to a dentist's chair for a decade and forced to watch Karl Langdon's Vista Blinds TV adverts on an endless loop, Clockwork Orange style.

I would rather be strapped to a chair and made to listen to The X Factor Songbook than Now That's What I Call Landfill Indie Volume One, or even four bars of a Bob Dylan vocal.

Is your life truly better or would you be strapped with an overwhelming financial burden and an unhappy family?

He'll be re-evaluated Monday, but the general sense is that Howard would have to be strapped down to prevent him from making his next World Cup start.