girdle
Example Sentences
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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
The shoulder girdle -- the configuration of bones and muscles that in humans support the movement of the arms -- is a classic example of an evolutionary 'novelty'.
From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023
At first, the pectoral girdle enabled gill-lifting muscles to better open the mouth, leading to the evolution of diverse fish feeding systems, Brazeau says.
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
When Hercules arrived she met him kindly and told him she would give him the girdle, but Hera stirred up trouble.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing girdle
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 5
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"For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
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