How to Use gird in a Sentence

gird

verb

• Anyone who lives for the thrill of a great markdown, gird your loins.
  — Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 2 June 2021
• Hermès fans, gird your wallets: the brand is about to increase its prices.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2022
• Now is the time for CPOs to harden their processes and gird their teams for the next seismic shift.
  — Richard Waugh, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• And gird your loins young ones, for the 45-year-olds are especially prowl-y, in that the gap shoots up past nine years.
  — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Onyx leather is a deep and rich black, and it’s girded beautifully by the sturdy white sole.
  — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
• Best to gird our loins in the new year and work to shove them from their powerful perches and media spotlights.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
• Perhaps as practice, to gird ourselves for the worst-case scenario.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
• The agents of immunity are so risk-averse that even the dread of facing off with a pathogen can sometimes prompt them to gird their little loins.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 June 2021
• It is girded with jewels and topped with a jeweled cross to show Jesus’ dominion over the world.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• Batten down your palates and gird your tastebuds: pumpkin spice season is here.
  — Jasmin Malik Chua, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• The movie rights itself in the end, though, and its title is wittily designed to gird it against criticism.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
• With these shaky warnings, Icelanders were girding for the eruption that came Monday night.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• So, if you're not easily offended, gird your ears and give it a listen.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2012
• The first ingredient listed on the label is sugar, and, gird your teeth, these cookies are sweet.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 27 Oct. 2021
• Full disclosure: there is no undergarment in the world that would gird my loins enough to prepare me for combat.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• To the contrary, its ever-shortening profile is helping gird me for the brutal days of winter ahead.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2019
• But its latest bid to gird that backing with a fresh increase monthly child subsidies hasn’t prompted a poll surge.
  — Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
• What McPherson is yearning for now is a fail-safe uniform of sorts—clothes that will gird her against the uncertainty of our hazy and not-quite-post-pandemic world.
  — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2023
• Matt girded them for the possibility of a gruesome scene.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Or should Britons gird themselves for the passing of another sovereign?
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• In a speech on March 6, Xi appeared to be girding China’s industrial base for struggle and conflict.
  — John Pomfret, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2023
• Some of his memos merely requested the dictionary definition of certain terms, as if to steady the chaos around him (or to gird a legal case for it).
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• After Saturday, Cincinnati will have two weeks to gird itself for an away day at Atlanta United.
  — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2022
• There is growing awareness on Capitol Hill of the need to gird against cyber threats to critical US infrastructure.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 20 May 2021
• Yet there's been a marked slowdown in hiring for many white-collar jobs as businesses gird for a possible recession.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023
• That hard-right contingent is girding to take over the Representative Town Meeting in next month’s elections.
  — Dan Barry, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• Grant, who describes herself as a person of color, spends most of her time sequestered at home and has to gird herself with extra pain medication just to shop or do her laundry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
• And the experience of men’s mockery at their cries—for the vote, for recognition, for the most basic dignities—girded isolated groups of feminists for the combat to come.
  — James Robins, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2023
• Sticking around for four years at a place where bolting for the NBA at the earliest possible moment is a tradition rivaling the pregame roll call has girded Jaquez for this moment.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• Officials are also girding for the potential impact of strikes.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024