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How To Use gird In A Sentence

• Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
• A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy. The Frontier in American History
• His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
• Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
• Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.
• All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
• These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
• The block is still just a skeleton of girders.
• Fires lighted at intervals formed a girdle of flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell, Maunganamu appeared to rise out of a great brasier, and to hide its head in the thick darkness. In Search of the Castaways
• Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.