girth

How To Use girth In A Sentence

• He's described as being ‘a wide man, ample girth’ and I thought it would be interesting to play a fat man.
• Tree species, numbers, individual girth or height of trees and plants, their arrangement within the space, and area of the space were all recorded.
• But coach Gregg Williams prefers quickness over excess girth in the middle of his defense.
• At about two years old, his three-foot girth spills out onto the flagstone path, causing visitors to pause on the way to the arbour.
• The fish was measured by tape to be 44.5” in girth and 81” in length before being released in healthy condition back into the water. Big Fish Dispatch
• A collar harness does not provide for the vertical force, so if a collar is used, the saddle has to be provided separately - but then it can have the advantage of being made more stable with a girth or bellyband under the donkey's belly. 3.1 Cattle harness
• The girth is wide, but so is that beaming smile. Times, Sunday Times
• The menu is insecure enough to try and impress merely with girth and size. Times, Sunday Times
• If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth. A Monk of Fife
• With his name making such regular appearances in your column, was his enormous girth your fault? Times, Sunday Times