girth
Example Sentences
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So it makes sense that, despite all their girth and grunting, shot putters tend to be science geeks.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024
Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through charisma and kindness as from sheer girth.
From Salon • May 27, 2024
He had the thrilling job of measuring the first shark’s length and girth.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
"They're not treating wrinkles or lax skin. They want less girth to their neck, a slimmer, more contoured neck," said Scot Glasberg, president-elect of Plastic Surgery Foundation, who practices in New York.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2023
It was a bit like Frankenstein’s monster, except that it was my mother’s monster, and I’d been the lucky recipient of its great girth.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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