loins

Example Sentences

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Tynecastle rubbed its eyes and then girded its loins.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

“There was an initial moment of shock and sort of ‘OK, so I’m going to gird my loins here and finish and accomplish all these things,’” he said.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 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

A double dose of pork appears in the form of grilled pork loins and a green bean and prosciutto salad on the side.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2022

The gods forced Loki onto the three great stones: they put one of the stones beneath his shoulders, one under his loins, and one beneath his knees.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman