girdling

Example Sentences

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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

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

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