girdle
Example Sentences
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The team found a partial skeleton encased in rock that included portions of the lower jaw, vertebrae, and pelvic girdle.
From Science Daily • Nov. 12, 2025
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
The old man held in one hand the end of a loop of cloth which O-lan had torn from her girdle, and within this loop the girl child staggered to and fro without falling.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Vocabulary lists containing girdle
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold
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"For the Union Dead" by Robert Lowell
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