girt

Example Sentences

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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.

From The New Yorker • May 12, 2015

To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien