- plural of loin.
loins
Example Sentences
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But when audiences girded their loins for the sequel—this one as lavishly supported by glossy publishers as its earlier version was disavowed—there was a single character whose zippy quippiness was most anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
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
“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
Next the reader—assuming he or she has not contracted the disease during the long cooking process—should “rub the temples and loins with this preparation...wash the mouth, and snuff up some of it into the nostrils.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
