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

Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.

From Time Magazine Archive

This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.

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