loins

Example Sentences

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Gird your loins, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is due to be released in cinemas on Friday 1 May 2026.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025

Then they’re cleaned by hand and the loins are separated from the belly before the meat is tightly hand-packed in cans and jars.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

“There was an initial moment of shock and sort of ‘OK, so I’m going to gird my loins here and finish and accomplish all these things,’” he said.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022

“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022

His prosperous-looking belly that used to thrust out so pugnaciously and intimidate folks, sagged like a load suspended from his loins.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston