Examples of elastic band

• Aphids were restricted to plants by enclosing the plants in perforated plastic bags fastened around the pot using an elastic band.

• A perforated 'bread' bag was placed over each plant and secured around the base of the pot with an elastic band.

• Each pot, containing an individual plant, was then covered with a 'bread' bag secured at the base round the pot with an elastic band.

• The cover was fixed with an elastic band in each case.

• The elastic band iteratively smoothes the plan and adapts it to moving or unexpected obstacles.

• It is difficult to buy and sell goods with a currency which goes out and in like an elastic band.

• Another prominent feature is the promise that there will be sold a combined cigarette case and lighter, from which the elastic band is missing.

• He only sets himself a borrowing target that is about as rubbery as an elastic band.