- present participle of girdle.
girdling
Example Sentences
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They created small or large canopy gaps around the trees by either felling or girdling the competing trees.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023
Many adult lampreys make it through fish ladders designed for salmon, but at each of the eight dams girdling the lower Columbia and Snake rivers, their ranks are reduced by roughly 30% to 50%.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022
On hilly roads girdling New York’s reservoirs, the Rivian carved up those BMWs and Benzes as if they were holiday turkeys, its clever hydraulic anti-roll system keeping the truck’s body as flat as a platter.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
With hard freezes becoming increasingly rare, more larvae are growing into adult beetles that systematically eat bark, girdling and killing the trees, “turning whole slopes from green to red.”
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2019
A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
