girdle
Example Sentences
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If allowed to grow up the trunk of a tree, it can eventually girdle or smother and kill it.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024
This theory has gained a lot of supportive evidence in the 150 years since both were proposed, but it cannot explain how the associated shoulder girdle evolved.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
It makes sense that arms and legs originated in these folds, but “the girdle is more complex as it has links to head and its musculature,” says Martin Brazeau, a paleontologist at Imperial College London.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 1, 2023
Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.
From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023
Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Vocabulary lists containing girdle
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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"For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
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