girdling

Example Sentences

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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

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

Researchers like Dr. Hanson envision a quantum communications network formed from a chain of entangled particles girdling the entire globe.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2015

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel