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

Fast forward 100 million years, and fish called placoderms swam the seas, with jaws and a primitive “shoulder” or pectoral girdle supporting paired front fins.

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

She wore a girdle of smelly rabbit skins.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The pair wore girdles as part of their ploy, authorities said, and had stuffed them with merchandise — including 17 pairs of jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

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

It also provides support for the shoulder girdles and upper limbs, and serves as the attachment point for the diaphragm, muscles of the back, chest, neck, and shoulders.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 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

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

“Only ten after six,” Grandma muttered, “and she’s already girdled and gallivantin’.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

Many adult lampreys make it through fish ladders designed for salmon, but at each of the eight dams girdling the lower Columbia and Snake rivers, their ranks are reduced by roughly 30% to 50%.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 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

In the new world, China envisages girdling the planet with a network of transportation and resource infrastructure.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel