How to Use girdle in a Sentence

girdle

1 of 2 noun

• She was bruised and nude from the waist down; her pantyhose and girdle bunched around her knees.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2019
• Venus’s girdle, a species of comb jelly, or ctenophore.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 8 June 2021
• Some 30 amulets and a unique gold girdle were found within the wrappings.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• Like the girdles that came before them, pantyhose could become a thing of the past.
  — Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2017
• As the Lapith tribe carried the gift of a girdle to the shrine of Artemis, centaurs tried to abduct the Lapith women.
  — Dominic Green, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• Many items that are called corsets aren't true corsets but are instead bustiers or girdles.
  — Cora Harrington, Allure, 8 Feb. 2018
• Larvae feed beneath the bark and girdle branches and trunks of trees.
  — oregonlive, 18 Feb. 2023
• Yes, through a small hole in the girdle’s crotch area for convenience (those outfits were hard to take all the way off, okay?).
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2020
• The resulting box encloses the shoulder and hip girdles, but is open at the front for the head, neck and forelegs, and at the back for the tail and hind legs.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2019
• The spots rapidly enlarge to form purplish black lesions, which girdle the stems and leaves, killing the foliage.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 11 June 2017
• The mummy wore a beaded golden girdle and had 30 amulets in their linen wrappings, some made of gold.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2021
• This extension of the cover could be used to carry the book like a purse or could be tucked into a girdle or belt.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 21 Apr. 2018
• As Camelot crumbles around him, Gawain pulls off the magical girdle that has kept him safe from harm — and his head rolls clean off.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2021
• As each name suggests, a band of blisters wraps around one side of the body, like a girdle, often around the waist, chest, stomach, back or buttocks.
  — Health.com, 1 May 2017
• Next to her, police found a receipt, a girdle and bloody newspapers.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The Spanx of today, however, is about more than just modern girdles.
  — Alexandra Cavallo, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2020
• The queen also bestowed him with the symbols denoting the Prince of Wales: a girdle, sword, coronet, rod, and mantle.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2019
• In Hanle, a girdle of mountains shuts out clouds and rain, and no town, industry, or highway exists to taint the air or brighten the sky.
  — Raghu Karnad, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2020
• The device came with a detailed backstory: The weapon, the issue explained, came from the chain links of the magic girdle worn by Queen Hippolyta.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• The wire mesh excludes snowshoe hares, which sometimes clip seedlings at the stem or girdle young trees, especially at the peak of hares’ 11-year cycles.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
• In a case out of Tennessee, for example, Martha Cunningham’s body was found bruised and nude from the waist down in the woods in 1975, her pantyhose and girdle bunched around her knees.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• The 1967 images also revealed a beaded girdle, the right forearm flexed at the elbow and crossing the chest, and a broken left arm resting along the mummy's flank.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2022
• Saturn isn’t the only ringed planet in our solar system, but its girdle of ice and dust is by far the most spectacular.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• The painful adherence to beauty standards that created the corset and later the girdle gets its due in Collins’s history.
  — Lisa Birnbach, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
• The answers to my questions were contemplative and self-aware paragraphs, as if the girdle of poetic form had been loosened.
  — Danny Freedman, Outside Online, 8 July 2022
• Women were stuffed into perma-girdles, hoisted onto heels, and cinched within an inch of their spleens.
  — Rachel Syme, The Cut, 13 Dec. 2017
• A girdle would have been superfluous on her hourglass frame, and her 37½ -inch bust, Life magazine noted, was the largest in the contest’s history.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• Next came all the period-correct garments, complete with girdle.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2021
• In between, there was everything from girdles to socket wrenches, dresses to guns, dolls to washing machines.
  — Allen G. Breed, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• Different crutches, braces and girdles — even a prosthetic leg — are on display.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018

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girdle

2 of 2 verb

• If left unchecked, the stems can girdle a small tree or shrub.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 28 Aug. 2022
• Too tight tree stakes and straps around the trunk or branches can girdle a tree too.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 July 2022
• These girdling roots cause compression of the stem and sapwood.
  — Rebecca Jepsen, The Mercury News, 28 Aug. 2019
• The barbs of Megatrygon microps are large, and the rays have strong muscles girdling their tail.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
• Roots growing in that way strangle, or girdle, the tree.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2022
• Their larvae girdled the trees from within, beneath the bark.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 24 June 2017
• As long as the tree isn't being girdled, there likely wouldn't be lasting damage to the tree.
  — Homes & Gardens Of The Northwest Staff, OregonLive.com, 1 June 2017
• But, unlike the train that girdles the world every 365 days, Derrickson’s tenure on the show has gone off the tracks.
  — Emma Stefansky, HWD, 1 July 2018
• The spots rapidly enlarge to form purplish black lesions, which girdle the stems and leaves, killing the foliage.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2021
• Voles are notorious for destroying grass crops and girdling the bark on shrubs and small trees.
  — OregonLive.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• People just don’t realize that girdling a tree with a wire or nylon rope is a sure way to ruin it.
  — Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 29 June 2018
• Here's the big picture: Ordinarily, the trade winds that girdle the equator blow from east to west.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2015
• An unmapped and storm-girdled island, deep in the South Pacific, is too much to resist.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• Do not girdle any vine that is in a weakened condition, or cut too deeply—remove just the outer bark.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 6 Feb. 2018
• On sycamores, the disease often infects branches, causing girdling cankers and dieback.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2018
• Circling roots can also girdle and kill a tree years after it was planted.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2021
• These roots have grown in a circle inside the container and could eventually girdle or choke the plant if not redirected to grow out and away from the plant.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2017
• The string can girdle the tree trunk to permanently injure the vascular system and reduce growth rate.
  — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 14 June 2019
• At least my trees’ roots won’t girdle (i.e., circle the root ball instead of probing outward for nutrients).
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 11 Mar. 2017
• Crews have employed a number of tactics, including felling trees with chain saws, girdling their trunks with a blade and spraying the wound with a systemic herbicide.
  — Adrian Higgins, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2018
• Plumes of noxious smoke from raging Australian and Siberian wildfires manage to girdle the entire globe.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
• The image was obtained using data from the Event Horizon Telescope, a globe-girdling network of radio telescopes.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Neglecting this can risk stake ties girdling a trunk or compromising the development of a sturdy trunk.
  — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 25 May 2023
• So when the developer of Oakland’s newest waterfront park wants to girdle it with 10 acres of private boat slips, the only polite response is — not so fast.
  — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Oct. 2021
• Be sure to remove any nylon or plastic covering or string, since these materials never decompose and can girdle the trunk and roots as the plant grows.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020
• Having never seen a rhino, but moved by the description of its armor-like skin, Dürer girdled his animal in steel, complete with rivets.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 18 May 2017
• Goodrich said the Houston Center development lies within the inner freeway loop girdling the central business district.
  — Charles Evans, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
• Moreover, the development of girdling roots beneath a mulch volcano is a virtual certainty.
  — cleveland, 23 Apr. 2020
• From the moment Dani, Christian and the rest pass through the settlement’s sunburst gate, everything from the green hills girdling the compound to the flowing choreography contributes to the slow-growing, inexorable sense of entrapment.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 2 July 2019
• Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.
  — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 15 June 2023

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