Example sentences for: strapping

How can you use “strapping” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Weeping willows hang over the lagoon, around which, in summer, you can take a soporific little tour on a Swan Boat, pedaled by a strapping young man or woman sitting at the rear.

  • Now, anyone who has read George Orwell or seen A Clockwork Orange can imagine the scene: The strapping teens slump embarrassed in their seats while evolution instructors lay out their state-sanctioned definition of human nature.

  • My sister once dated a strapping young man who was a diehard booster of the University of Iowa, the sports teams of which are called the Hawkeyes.

  • For the first time in his public life, he has forced himself to speak openly about the horrible war wound that turned a strapping, athletic youth into an emaciated, bed-ridden hospital patient.


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