girdling

Example Sentences

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It takes precision to harness so much abundance; raising the house to save the sibipiruna, for instance, meant inserting tiers in the terrain to avoid girdling the roots of pre-existing loquats and phoenix palms.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024

Small gaps were created by felling or girdling any competing tree that overlapped the hemlock's outermost branches, or dripline.

From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023

Crews have employed a number of tactics, including felling trees with chain saws, girdling their trunks with a blade and spraying the wound with a systemic herbicide.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2018

They also squandered timber by girdling trees to clear land, cutting the bark around their trunks and later burning them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel