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

For Thanksgiving, I might go all-out with ribs, sauteed zucchini, wagyu kebabs, quail loins, eggplant parmesan, jellied yams, eXtra uni, veal Nicoise.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

“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

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