girt
Example Sentences
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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.
From The New Yorker • May 12, 2015
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
