loins

Example Sentences

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For Jones and his salvation army it's a day to gird the loins and fight back.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026

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

A double dose of pork appears in the form of grilled pork loins and a green bean and prosciutto salad on the side.

From Salon • Jan. 26, 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