girdle

Example Sentences

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Fossils were meticulously prepared to remove the surrounding matrix of rock and expose the skull, shoulder girdle and pectoral fins.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024

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

At first, the pectoral girdle enabled gill-lifting muscles to better open the mouth, leading to the evolution of diverse fish feeding systems, Brazeau says.

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

I threw the blanket over the lines again, with the new girdle string going around the masthead.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel