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

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

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

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