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
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Gandalf bore his staff, but girt at his side was the elven-sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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