What is "elastic bands"

Usage examples of "elastic bands".

I also helped myself to a book of Roadies Inn matches from a whole bowl of them and a paper clip that was in a big ashtray full of elastic bands and office supplies, and went back to the room.

The paper masks were ribbed and pored and had plastic nose guards and elastic bands.

Instead I had shoe trees in my spare shoes, elastic bands around my spare clothes, and more elastic bands in my pockets, and several two-centimeter steel ball bearings.

Forgetting the tie-downs until he saw the elastic bands rip free and fly into space, Daeman lifted the sonie ten feet above the metal terrace, twitched the stick, fed power to the rear thrusters, went off course, quickly realigned before smashing into metal instead of window, and hit the semipermeable square doing thirty or forty miles per hour.

He saw Hakim produce the knife, elastic bands, clear plastic tube and gossamer bag, and tried not to guess their uses.

An oversized nerve-disruptor shield-net suit had its cuffs turned up and held with elastic bands at wrists and ankles.

They were bundled up in extra T-shirts and shorts and long-sleeved coveralls left by the evicted downsiders, with the legs wrapped tight to their lower arms and secured by elastic bands.