loins

Example Sentences

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For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

Then they’re cleaned by hand and the loins are separated from the belly before the meat is tightly hand-packed in cans and jars.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

Then gird your loins, because this isn’t a drink for the delicate.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearances he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck