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How to use the word strapped in a Sentence?

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Stock market has been falling steadily for the last 3 months in a row and traders are all cash strapped and most have quit capital market forever. No traders make money in the share market and that's reality

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_2
1 year ago

To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped – it's outrageous, i promise you, those people will pay.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re about funding and providing the additional services you need beyond someone with a gun strapped to their shoulder, we need more social workers, mental health workers. We need more people who, when you’re called on these scenes and someone is about to jump off a roof, it’s not just someone standing with a weapon – it is someone who also knows how to talk to people, talk them down.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped – it's outrageous, i promise you, those people will pay. There will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences. President Biden. ( Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The comments outraged Border Patrol agents, who argued the president threw the officers under the bus while not understanding what the reins were actually used for. The letter, which was signed by Texas Reps. Chips Roy, Brian Babin, and Michael Cloud, as well as Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Scott Perry, R-Pa., Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Darrell Issa, R-Calif., quotes an anonymous DHS official saying they.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped – it's outrageous, i promise you, those people will pay. There will be an investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just wanted to thank them for that because we are strapped federally with resources all over the nation.

Nickie Johnny

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Roger McGuinn

added by RobertHaigh
2 years ago

I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

Roger McGuinn

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We may see an uptick in certain kinds of strategic investments for companies that are cash-strapped and could use a Warren Buffett-like injection, for General M&A, non-distressed M&A, and IPO activity for the foreseeable future until we have a better handle on things, it seems like all bets are off.

Jeremy Fraiberg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You're going to see a lot of public companies that are cash-strapped that need a round of financing that likely can't get that done in this current climate.

Matt Hawkins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was nervous to go to class, morehouse is an all-male college and seeing me with a baby strapped to me would make all eyes be on me.

Wayne Hayer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We can think of iconic images like The Atlantic monthly cover of the mom carrying the kid in the briefcase to work and how absurd that's supposed to be to us, but then when we think of women in lower-income countries, you think of the mom selling goods at the market with a kid strapped to her back, and you think,' Well, that's not a problem for her, because she can easily combine child care and work,' there's this perception out there that for the kinds of work that women do in lower-income countries, it's easier to combine child care and work.

Shelley Clark

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is simply bad public policy to be spending public funds at a time when everyone is strapped for cash and cannot fund the money for vital services. Even if they are relatively small funders, they are directing much-needed resources from schools and roads to meet the political desires of lawmakers.

Ira Mehlman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When he said he was gonna use that money for gas. I knew he was strapped for cash.

Del Valle

Found on CNN
6 years ago

They're much more strapped for cash, and they're accelerating the sale of assets that will get pretty decent prices, a lot of the asset sales that the big guys have been selling are downstream and midstream, because those have been sought-after by private equity and others because there's more steady cash flow.

Lysle Brinker

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They’re much more strapped for cash, and they’re accelerating the sale of assets that will get pretty decent prices, a lot of the asset sales that the big guys have been selling are downstream and midstream, because those have been sought-after by private equity and others because there’s more steady cash flow.

Lysle Brinker

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He just parked and then opened up the door, hopped out with the gun on, strapped-up and everything.

Matt Jarrell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A stake purchase in Essar Oil will help Rosneft participate in global trade without being subjected to western sanctions and Essar, which is a cash-strapped group, will get money to get rid of some of its debt.

Prakash Diwan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Money can be strapped to the backs of mules, it's easy to move things across a border during a time of deprivation and chaos.

Thomas Sanderson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was doing fight choreography for over a month and it kind of all changes when you have a propane tank strapped to your back and a flaming sword, if you're off a couple of inches your whole wardrobe will go up in flames.

Vin Diesel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I attribute my longevity to a great extent to walking, not being in the back of the car strapped down.

George Boggess

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With that size of economy, everyone has expansion plans, companies in Iran are cash-strapped.

Marzban Mortaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When Judge McCuskey granted me a new trial, I was still holding my breath. 'Cause I'd watched guys on death row get a new trial and have the attorney general appeal it and have it taken away. And within 60 days, they're strapped to a gurney being executed.

Randy Steidl

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They're talking about hunting in Montana. They're not talking about walking into a Wal-Mart with a 9-millimeter strapped to their back. do I think that people who own guns lie in bed at night thinking about shooting a black man? No.

Charles Gallagher

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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