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Girdle
"Girdle" in a Sentence (17 examples)
She wears a girdle.
Are you wearing a girdle?
So long as you hold fast to my girdle, you will remain unseen by all mankind, though seeing clearly yourself.
Stealing noiselessly into her sleeping father’s chamber she detached from his girdle the key he guarded so jealously and opened the gate.
In some places, farmers are using "detection trees." These have an area where bark has been cut away. The area circles the tree and is called a girdle. The girdling process weakens the trees. It makes them easier targets for borers, and shows if the insects are nearby.
Tom wore a girdle to make his beer belly seem smaller.
Principles are a girdle that gets tighter and tighter over time.
the girdle of the world
Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies
from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
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In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere that gems the starry girdle of the year
And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail!
She therefore assumed the novice's garb, so universally worn by young Italians—a robe of black silk, only fastened round the waist by a girdle.
Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.
The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.
The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.
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