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 gird your loins, because this isn’t a drink for the delicate.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2022

For Thanksgiving, I might go all-out with ribs, sauteed zucchini, wagyu kebabs, quail loins, eggplant parmesan, jellied yams, eXtra uni, veal Nicoise.

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 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

Robb who had been more a brother to Theon than any son bom of Balon Greyjoy’s loins.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin