girt

Example Sentences

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Australia’s anthem describes the country as “girt by sea.”

From New York Times

In a short epilogue, we glimpse him as an adult, girt with the trappings of fascism and worshipped by the mob.

From The New Yorker

Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

From Literature

He stood up and cast open his long black cloak, and behold! he was clad in mail beneath, and girt with a long sword, great-hilted in a sheath of black and silver.

From Literature

Another British diplomat visited Abbottabad, a town near the Kashmir border, and found that “the tribesmen were conspicuous with their rifles over their shoulders, girt with bandoliers and looking thoroughly piratical.”

From Washington Post