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

Fast forward 100 million years, and fish called placoderms swam the seas, with jaws and a primitive “shoulder” or pectoral girdle supporting paired front fins.

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

He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch of grey cloth and counted the money in it.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck