girdle

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

This theory has gained a lot of supportive evidence in the 150 years since both were proposed, but it cannot explain how the associated shoulder girdle evolved.

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

In his lean body, about which he daily wrapped more tightly his loose girdle, there was a determination to live.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

Each bag is assigned to a player and contains everything that person wore under his uniform — compression shirts, girdles, tights, socks, skull caps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024

“So girls started wearing corsets, girdles and brassieres over their clothes, and this then led to the trend for underwear as outerwear.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 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

Nineteen sixty-eight marked a year in which women loosed themselves from bras and girdles.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018

The girls grew up knowing nothing of girdles, and the boys announced their manhood by turning the bills of their caps backward.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

Undesirable tree species and invasive vegetation were carefully managed, meaning they were cut, girdled, or treated with herbicide.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2018

Those soft, olive-like orbs join cured lemon lending tart counterpoint to roasted smelts pulled from Puget Sound and girdled with dried Berkshire ham.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2013

Sometimes she remembered how precious it had once been to her, and the memory girdled itself around her chest, squeezing.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Small gaps were created by felling or girdling any competing tree that overlapped the hemlock's outermost branches, or dripline.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

I admired the sensuous materiality of the undulating brass-and-glass facade, the riverine expanse of white oak floor, the roughness of the pale brick girdling the auditorium.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

With hard freezes becoming increasingly rare, more larvae are growing into adult beetles that systematically eat bark, girdling and killing the trees, “turning whole slopes from green to red.”

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2019

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

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel