loins
Example Sentences
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Gird your loins, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is due to be released in cinemas on Friday 1 May 2026.
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2025
Then they’re cleaned by hand and the loins are separated from the belly before the meat is tightly hand-packed in cans and jars.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023
Then gird your loins, because this isn’t a drink for the delicate.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022
“As if I were not her very own child,” Harry, the novel’s sole narrator, says, “as if I were not the flesh of her loins, as if I were instead some foreign pathogenic prototype.”
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
I knew only that I would grow heavy with the burden, and one day deathlike pains would grip me until the creature sprang from my loins and cried to be cared for.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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