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
Producers have used two types of tethers (neck and girth); both of which restrict sow movement.
Put the saddle on the horse, but don't tighten the girth too much right away.
The girth is increased with injections of fat from other parts of the body. The Sun
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
[Footnote: A leglin-girth is the lowest hoop upon a _leglin_, or milk - pail. The Fortunes of Nigel
In this paper, the residual welding stresses in a low carbon steel girth butt welded pipe are calculated with a nonlinear finite element code ADINA.
A draw-string allowed the pyjamas to comfortably embrace a great girth, and also to drop at a moments notice.
[Footnote 10: snake, bad steer.] [Footnote 11: Dolly welter, rope tied all around the saddle.] [Footnote 12: rim-fire saddle, without flank girth.] Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
There's no doubt about it, plaid, like any other busy pattern, can put on the illusion of girth.
I caught a rear-end glimpse, with a stiff tail, as big in girth as my body, standing out straight behind. A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE
Drew dropped into an en garde stance and beckoned for the other combatant - a big man who was nearly three times Drew's size in height and girth - to come on.
Its girth and grandeur were just not normal me. Times, Sunday Times
She buckled the girth quickly and retrieved her bridle.
Each also has a heart monitor strapped to their girth, the output from which is assessed in real time. Times, Sunday Times
Measuring ten metres in girth, weighing 23 tons and knocking on a bit at about 800 years old, the tree is an impressive - if ungainly - sight.
Some politicians may well have a cherubic grin and a Churchillian girth, yet they seem to refuse to follow one of the great Prime Minister's maxims.
On Great Slave River, the higher latitude is offset by lower altitude, and on June 2, 1907, while among the tall white spruce trees I measured one of average size -- 118 feet high, 11 feet 2 inches in girth a foot from the ground (3 feet 6 1/2 inches in diameter), and many black poplars nearly as tall were 9 feet in girth. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
That doesn't make any sense, he's not fast or good at defending the paint or anything wow if Fat Baby is going to be allowed to play this well - I give up. out of all the bigs only brad miller has a d in his name girth, I want to say. Blog a Bull
He was a tall man, of considerable girth .
And huge, golden melons of the papaia, ready for the eating, globuled directly from the slender-trunked trees not one-tenth the girth of the fruits they bore. CHAPTER XIII
During ascents, a single-setting heel lifter keeps your calves from combusting, while the girth of the two-edged ‘skis’ makes walking through deep powder a breeze.
There is an elm about a mile from the village seventeen feet in girth, and not long since we heard of a bass-wood or linden twenty-eight feet in circumference. Rural Hours
An even more physically astounding feat than the shot, frankly, was how quickly hefty Magic Johnson had his offensive lineman 's girth up out of his courtside seat to celebrate Bryant's shot.
Time was when he was lean of girth -- as becomes an accountant, who is hinged dyspeptically all day across his desk -- but by this agreeable stowage he has now grown to plumpness. Chimney-Pot Papers
In the tackroom where the bridles, bits, snaffles, girths and whips were hanging on the wall, Jackson asked me about everything.
A draw-string allowed the pyjamas to comfortably embrace a great girth, and also to drop at a moments notice.
Neck circumference and waist and hip girth were measured using a tape measure.
His height nearly matched his girth, and the gold ornamentation continued from waist down, with his belt and even his boot buckles being made of the precious metal.
The oak was 2 metres in girth.
The snorers had a significantly higher weight, BMI, neck girth, waist girth, and hip girth as compared with nonsnorers.
The Count was a man of immense girth, but he was nothing compared to his younger brother.
True, he is given to a certain stoutness and fullness of frame, but it has been remarked that this well-apportioned girth rather adds to the majestic dignity of his bearing.
Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye. Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.
Length, girth and a tidy surrounding thatch all help, but looking normal is apparently what counts. The Sun
A girl he knew had upset him by commenting on his increasing girth.
Put the saddle on the horse, but don't tighten the girth too much right away.
Carolina -- one of them was a signer of the declaration of Independence and governor of the state. sabre (sa'ber), a sword with a broad, heavy blade, usually curved. sackcloth (sak'kloth '), a garment worn in mourning or penitence. saddle-girth (sad'l-gurth), that which fastens on the saddle. saddletree, frame of a saddle. sage (saj), wise. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
Chest wall mobility is often assessed by measuring chest excursion, the difference between chest girth at maximal inhalation and maximal exhalation.
I look tiny compared to the immense girth that I am now sporting.
Adam is 45 feet tall and measures 10 feet 7 inches in girth.
Despite her size and girth, however, she was well proportioned and attractive with blue or green eyes and light colored hair that was sometimes described as reddish.
Why, Dr. Slop's abdominal sesquipedality was sylph-like grace to the Lambertian girth she displays. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
A piece of oiled cloth should be kept inside the girth to ensure the leather stays supple. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
He shook his head, and without a word loosened the girths of his horse and took off the bridle. In the Heart of the Rockies
The wide-girthed tree crowns our modest backyard, an earth-bound shelter for suburban fauna, scrappy squirrels, tooth ... Charlotte Safavi: Handling Death with Kid Gloves
There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Friars A Dickens Of A Debate Between Mr. Scrooge And Mr. Say
The trunks of some of the trees were three times the girth of anything in Europe, and many had enormous walls of wood sprouting from their bases like the buttresses of gothic cathedrals.
I like lashes to have a weight, length and girth that only a powerful mascara can deliver. Times, Sunday Times
Going through my relaxation exercises at night, I would imagine myself astride their considerable girth, soaring through the sky in regal splendour. My Virtual Life « Tales from the Reading Room
And he plonked his considerable girth in between me and the lecherous customer for the rest of the visit. Bosses I Have Known « Tales from the Reading Room
Stoker girthed his ass for flight and bespake himself, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
In some of the dampest ravines tree-ferns flourished in an extraordinary manner; I saw one which must have been at least twenty feet high to the base of the fronds, and was in girth exactly six feet. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The wide-girthed tree crowns our modest backyard, an earth-bound shelter for suburban fauna, scrappy squirrels, toothsome chipmunks and commonplace feathered friends. Charlotte Safavi: Handling Death with Kid Gloves
The European Union, meanwhile, is patiently assembling the economic girth and institutional confidence to act as the leading counterpoise to Washington.
Our girths have expanded with "two for one" pizzas, multisize burgers, king-size fries, super-size soft drinks. Globe and Mail
With his name making such regular appearances in your column, was his enormous girth your fault? Times, Sunday Times
When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse.
Originally used for climbing protection by girth - hitching a runner around it and clipping the rope in.
She was a somewhat plain woman, her former slenderness surrendering gracefully to the greater girth of middle age and childbearing.
When measuring girth, at 4 1/2 feet above the ground, make sure your tape is perpendicular to the axis of the trunk.
Broken-girth-flow, a territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortle-berries. The Black Dwarf
This is a good place to catch a profuse carpet of bluebells in spring, and there are giant redwoods with girths large enough to be encircled by ten or more people standing hand to hand.
He was easily recognisable not merely by virtue of his profound bass baritone voice, but because of his girth.
Amongst other things which our conductor showed us was an immense onen or ash; it stood in one of the courts and measured, as she said, pedwar y haner o ladd yn ei gwmpas, or four yards and a half in girth. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
A piece of oiled cloth should be kept inside the girth to ensure the leather stays supple. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
Each also has a heart monitor strapped to their girth, the output from which is assessed in real time. Times, Sunday Times
Here in this broad window, foregathered in a congress of colours designed to appetise, are the ripe fruits of every clime and every season: the Southern pomegranate beside the hardy Northern apple, scarlet and yellow; the early strawberry and the late ruddy peach; figs from the Orient and pines from the Antilles; dates from Tunis and tawny persimmons from Japan; misty sea-green grapes and those from the hothouse -- tasteless, it is true, but so lordly in their girth, and royal purple; portly golden oranges and fat plums; pears of mellow blondness and pink-skinned apricots. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
And during the two campaigns which I made with the Prince, living in a tent, on the pole of which hung my dispatch-bag containing my store of small money (it being impossible to obtain change for a piece of gold anywhere in the interior), and no guard being kept on the tents, I never lost a zwanziger, or any other article than a girth by which the blanket was fastened on my horse when grazing at night; and, as the blanket came back, even that did not look like a theft. The Autobiography of a Journalist
The width of this canvas is never the full girth of the human body it is to surround. Chapter 7
He bent to loosen the girth, with some remark in an undertone, but she replied briefly and turned away, to see me sitting on the step of the mounting-block. Rose cottage
And, given their impressive girth, it was also something of a miracle the pair of them made it to the front of the church at all. The Sun
When he hath a mind to ride me, he binds on his feet a thing of iron called a stirrup and lays on my back another thing called a saddle, which he fastens by two girths, passed under my armpits. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
He said: 'I see a direct correlation between the girth size of the chief executives of food businesses and the quality of food they sell. Times, Sunday Times
He said: 'I see a direct correlation between the girth size of the chief executives of food businesses and the quality of food they sell. Times, Sunday Times
The female figure is decidedly larger in stature than her male counterpart, both in height and in girth.
Despite its great girth, Mr. Chernow's opus is less suitable for more advanced students, particularly those of a mercantile or financial bent.
Neck circumference was taken at the level of the cricothyroid membrane, waist circumference at the level of umbilicus, and hip circumference at the maximal girth level.
She called Remy, who jumped down, and began to tighten the girths. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
Length, girth and a tidy surrounding thatch all help, but looking normal is apparently what counts. The Sun
All about them the huge-rooted trees blocked their footing, while coiled and knotted climbers, of the girth of a man's arm, were thrown from lofty branch to lofty branch, or hung in tangled masses like so many monstrous snakes. Chapter 25
The pulse can be found with a stethoscope under the heart girth, or with fingers place below the horse's jaw or on the inside of the pastern joint.
Tack is not defined, but presumably means saddle and bridle and normal accessories, such as girths, cinches and saddle pads.
A girl he knew had upset him by commenting on his increasing girth.
Lon is also a former rent-league pro-wrestler, a short man with a tapered lower half, scorched blonde hair, and a set of heavy biceps equal in girth to most people's hocked thighs. The Last of Boland
Walking over to the side, I unhooked the girth and slid the saddle off, putting it on the outer fence.
Pick a Christmas tree that suits your family: large in girth and always needing a drink. A 2006 Research Plan
The primeval pines up here are of gigantic size, rising from eighty to over a hundred feet, enormous in girth, and garlanded with hoary grey-green moss, the growth of centuries. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
He is rumoured to own land worth millions but supporting his ample girth was... an elastic band. The Sun
A crawler, device of girth welds testing outside pipeline is developed successfully.
He is rumoured to own land worth millions but supporting his ample girth was... an elastic band. The Sun
Joshua cinched the girth on his horse's saddle, pulling it tight and swinging upon the animal's broad back with ease.
Since muscle mass is appendicular, it seems reasonable to propose that the addition of a calf or upper leg girth would have strengthened the prediction equation.
The biggest is over eight feet in girth, with an enormous open hollowed bolling like a madly exaggerated cartoon of a Doric column. Wildwood
Although the official media afford him considerable respect, he is the object of some derision among other Chinese, who lampoon what they call his mediocre performance as a student, his unkempt ways and his prodigious girth; in recent years, his weight has exceeded 220 pounds. PrairiePundit
Each also has a heart monitor strapped to their girth, the output from which is assessed in real time. Times, Sunday Times
The juice is freshly squeezed, the teapot of ample girth. Times, Sunday Times
In so doing, these writers further increase the girth of their text, pump up the load on their servers, and ensure that the race against mouthfuls of extraneous words will continue until they run out of time.
Originally used for climbing protection by girth - hitching a runner around it and clipping the rope in.
The saddle and the man were girthed on the ridge bone of a great trampling Flemish mare, with a nose turned up in the air like a camel, a huge fleece of hair at each foot, and every hoof full as large in circumference as a frying pan. The Fair Maid of Perth
The regular passage is far to the east around Staten Island, which means a loss of westing, and here, at the tip of the world, where the great west wind, unobstructed by any land, sweeps round and around the narrow girth of earth, westing is the thing that has to be fought for mile by mile and inch by inch. CHAPTER XXXIII
It was as if he had more substance to him, like spiritual girth.
The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed.
The alternative is a girth boost, where fat from elsewhere in the body is injected to add width. The Sun
It wound around hillocks and between upthrust boulders, even the trees they passed were mightier of girth.
The alternative is a girth boost, where fat from elsewhere in the body is injected to add width. The Sun
In contrast to these girthy ladies, other Blackwood women are wraiths and ambulating phantoms, eaten up by anxieties and rage.
He made his reputation by throwing his weight around the department, a considerable girth I might add which he unfortunately chose to cover in velour workout suits.
No doubt contributing to her girth was the circumstance of having borne her royal lover six children.
Waist and hip girths were measured standing, at the level of the umbilicus and the level of maximal gluteal protrusion, respectively.
Can you imagine the immense girth of a fish like that?
Penis enlargement medicines and best natural male enhancement ways to enlarge penis size in girth and width to enlarge penis naturally. Matthew Yglesias » Why Don’t You Guys Ever Report the Good News?
The alternative is a girth boost, where fat from elsewhere in the body is injected to add width. The Sun
But when Enriquez began to tighten the "cinch" or girth, a more singular thing occurred. Short Stories of Various Types
Use clean tack, saddle pads, and cinches / girths, and make sure your saddle fits your horse.
He preserved a courtly oblivion towards the event, though it seems beyond reason that he could have not noticed his wife's girth had suddenly fined down.
So even if the girth gives, the saddle will stay on the horse's back.
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
At 37 inches long and 24.75 inches in girth, and the lunker weighed 28.8 pounds, roughly a pound heavier than the previous brown trout record. Missouri State Record Brown Trout Caught on Taneycomo
The size of the mouse should equal the girth of the pet.
Swiss Army adds a bit of character by removing one alternating sections of girth on the first 15 minute scale as a method to more easily measure the first 15 minuted which is an important measurement for divers. MyLinkVault Newest Links
The juice is freshly squeezed, the teapot of ample girth. Times, Sunday Times
You'll forget the hambone goofy stutter steps and the ‘grab my hand and I'll pull you up the cliff!’ clichés that stud its giant girth.
And, given their impressive girth, it was also something of a miracle the pair of them made it to the front of the church at all. The Sun
25A leglin-girth is the lowest hoop upon a leglin, or milk-pail. The Fortunes of Nigel
Prior to testing, we weighed each dog and measured its girth just behind the front legs.
A colossus - in girth at least - he felt he could engulf the United States in his expansive personality.
Huntinglen, the departed Countess of this noble earl, ganging a wee bit gleed in her walk through the world; I mean in the way of slipping a foot, casting a leglin-girth, or the like, ye understand me?” The Fortunes of Nigel
The girth is increased with injections of fat from other parts of the body. The Sun
Each also has a heart monitor strapped to their girth, the output from which is assessed in real time. Times, Sunday Times
There in the creek, which was deep but still narrow enough to step across with scarcely a hop, was a catfish that looked longer than a singletree for an ox team, though much greater in girth. Cold Mountain
The buck has a dark, forked 4x4 rack and is enormous, bigger than any whitetail I've ever seen, girthed up from months of feeding in anticipation of the rut. Cancer Survivor Alyssa Iacoboni Goes on the Hunt of a Lifetime
It has a two-way zipper around the unpadded ends and top and two large carry straps around the girth.
His immense height and girth made him seem like a bull, enraged and ready to charge.
She unlinked his saddle and threw the girth over it.
The male dog otter measured 41.5 inches in length with a girth of 26 inches.
Deep within the forest there was a tree, a beech tree, tall and strong in its prime with a huge girth and limbs as thick as ten men's arms.
The noble sport of sumo wrestling demands impressive girth and not inconsiderable skill. Times, Sunday Times
Capped above and lighted around, the tree grew in girth, but not height.
I like lashes to have a weight, length and girth that only a powerful mascara can deliver. Times, Sunday Times
Clem was not a tall man, but he made up for it in girth and attitude. 365 tomorrows » 2005 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
I put the saddle on and began buckling the girth.
The cable is clipped to a yellow harness buckled around the girth of the tuna.
There are more nerve endings near the underside called the frenulum where the foreskin is attached and around the head (the corona), and more girth, generally speaking. Suzie Heumann: Thank You Darwin: Phallus Evolution
The menu is insecure enough to try and impress merely with girth and size. Times, Sunday Times
He rested his hands on his broad girth .
Watch for larger saplings and young trees to noticeably increase in girth and height, but you'll have to look closely to see the nearly imperceptible addition of one or two annual rings on bigger trees.
Stoker girthed his ass for flight and bespake himself, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
LEGLIN-GIRTH, the lowest hoop on a leglin, or milk-pail. The Fortunes of Nigel
The saddle had been girthed and cinched tight to him.
A 71-year-old white man with no prior history of malignancy and a 2-week history of obstipation, increasing abdominal girth, and abdominal cramping sought medical attention after he began passing bright red blood per rectum.
Gwen checked the girth, pulled down the stirrups and quickly swung into the saddle.
And be the coop of his gobbos, Reacher the Thaurd, thinks your girth fatter, apopo of his buckseaseilers, but where’s Horace’s courtin troopsers? — Finnegans Wake
The maximal increase in girth of an extremity usually occurs during the first year.
Leading him to a tree and commanding him to halt she hefted the saddle on and fastened the girth.
Chaps who came double-barrelled in girth as well as surname, their powerbases were in the shires and they had had a good war.
Each also has a heart monitor strapped to their girth, the output from which is assessed in real time. Times, Sunday Times
Bringing up its wings with a tremendous boom, it stopped right in the middle of the air, and whomped down onto the ground with surprising lightness for a creature of its girth.
He was a tall man, of considerable girth .
A limited physical examination was performed in which the height, weight, neck, waist and hip girth, and blood pressure were measured.
The juice is freshly squeezed, the teapot of ample girth. Times, Sunday Times
Topical fat reduction with the aminophylline cellulite treatment has shown significant reduction in fat loss and thigh girth. Wil's Ebay E-Store
Neck, waist, and hip girth, skinfold thickness, and fasting serum levels of lipids, glucose, insulin, and leptin were compared between these two groups.
Unlike the bespoke tailor who will use the collar/sleeve as a guide to build the chest and the girth of the shirt, most online sites take an estimate.
About ten minutes later, while studying a series of German lithographs in the coffee-room, I heard a heavy footstep in the passage and a knock at the door; and Mr. Job appeared, a giant of a man, with a giant's girth and red cheeks, which he sufflated as a preliminary of speech. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
The girth is wide, but so is that beaming smile. Times, Sunday Times
Each had a felt square, edges bound in leather, simple stirrups dangling - but there was nothing in the way of a girth to tie the pad onto the horse.
The tree is grand and huge, its girth perhaps five metres, and the knotted protuberances of the base cover a huge area.

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