girdle

One fossil revealed a segmented cartilaginous sternum, along with sternal ribs, intermediate ribs, and connections linking the ribcage to the shoulder girdle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026

If allowed to grow up the trunk of a tree, it can eventually girdle or smother and kill it.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Known placoderms have at most five gill arches, others having evolved into jaws and the hyoid, so the pectoral girdle derives from what was once the sixth gill arch, Brazeau’s team concludes.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023

Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2023

I can hardly breathe in my girdle, which I bet is rearranging my internal organs.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

RIGA, Latvia — Russian volunteers are crafting girdles from dog hair to help keep the soldiers fighting against Ukraine warm.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

Worn until the early 20th century, it was eventually replaced by girdles, and then more or less by diet, exercise and plastic surgery.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

“They have these entire markets in girdles and beauty products.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Midge has made me grateful that women are no longer expected to wear corsets and petticoats and girdles and all the gear.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2019

Gem- stones glittered on the fingers of the lords and the girdles and hairnets of the ladies.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Shellfish was another popular commodity in a city girdled by oyster beds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Behind the Holms’ house, two miles from downtown Louisville, the deck looks over a large trampoline, girdled with a safety net.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Temujin girdled his sworn friend Jamukha with the golden belt taken as loot from Toqto’a of the Merkit.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Individual ash can also be girdled to make a so-called trap tree: the bark is removed all the way around the trunk, drawing borers in the vicinity with the promise of exposed sapwood.

From The Verge ● Nov. 25, 2019

She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

They created small or large canopy gaps around the trees by either felling or girdling the competing trees.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

Sprinklers sent arcs of water onto the rich, green swales girdling the townhouse and condo developments.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2021

Crews have employed a number of tactics, including felling trees with chain saws, girdling their trunks with a blade and spraying the wound with a systemic herbicide.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018

They also squandered timber by girdling trees to clear land, cutting the bark around their trunks and later burning them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel