‘I fixed it with rubber elastic bands to reduce vibrations and noise.’
‘Here were the lower halves of trouser-legs with elastic bands to hold them in position between knee and ankle.’
‘In a normal joint, the ligaments are like tight elastic bands holding the bones apart, while the bones themselves have a protective coating of cartilage.’
‘The kids played football with bags rolled up in elastic bands, in bare feet.’
‘When I was delivering leaflets in Liden, I found literally hundreds of elastic bands in the area, and friends have all had the same experience.’
‘Subsisting on a diet of bathroom water I could tolerate, but a diet of manilla envelopes and elastic bands I could not.’
‘We have just developed a new cutting technique where you tie the hair up in elastic bands and then cut it and get this amazing shaggy effect.’
‘She waltzed in on my day off like she owned the place, stole my desk by the window and binned my priceless collection of elastic bands.’
‘He said his suspicions deepened when he noticed the elastic bands round the ballot papers had been removed.’
‘Among the tasks they took part in was the challenge to construct a giant pyramid out of wooden dowel and elastic bands.’
‘I WAS stood on the edge of this cable car with a huge elastic band round my ankles.’
‘He was like an elastic band and he had a phenomenal engine, which was perfect for the game we played.’
‘In 1845, Britain's Stephen Perry invented the elastic band.’
‘Each family had to make a model cotton-reel tank, powered by an elastic band, and were allowed three attempts to fire the tank as close to a target as possible.’
‘Eric McMellon was trimming a tree when he stumbled on more than 100 letters tied up in an elastic band on Sunday afternoon.’
‘Alternatively, cover the pots with a polythene bag held in place with an elastic band and put out of the sun in a sheltered part of the garden.’
‘I rolled it up, secured it with an elastic band, and propped it safely in the corner behind the door against his return.’
‘Tolerance, however, rather like an elastic band, can only be stretched so far before it breaks.’
‘I do need to find a stout elastic band, however, to hold the book closed in my bag.’
‘On some farms an elastic band is put round the bird's neck to stop it throwing up the food.’
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