girt
Example Sentences
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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.
From The New Yorker • May 12, 2015
This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
