The word "girth" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used when referring to either the circumference or width of something, especially around the waist. Example sentence: The horse measured two meters in girth.
Packs of men (it is mostly men) who call themselves "cloud chasers" gather in rooms with tampered contraptions and compete to see who can generate the biggest fogs of vapour ("It's judged on girth, size, length and overall density," a vaper told reporters during the recent X Games of Vaping at New York's Henley Vaporium).
Vogt is pure George Grosz, 1936: a man of massive girth with a back as big as a billiard table and a tiny little moustache.
Also, the width at the ankle is flattering to the girth of the thigh.
Instead of the charming Rowland, a boisterous Australian-born chairman, David Lenigas, with a girth as big as his ambitions, gladhands politicians wherever he goes.
They derided his ample girth and well-known collection of pornography.
The triumph of art from Texas, in other words, is that it is no longer Texan art.In this section A man of girth No oil painting A feast of cantatas Remember?
Aficionados relish the girth, firmness and fragrance of their cigars.
Cars and light trucks on American roads today are 30% heavier than they were in the mid-1980s. mid-1980s.ly, heavier vehicles need beefier engines to lUnfortunatelya girtheavierd.
AMERICA'S girth may seem inevitable today, at least to many Americans.
And as a TV chef he made a more convincing populist, offering not only cheap health care and low-cost loans for the poor, as Mr Thaksin had, but also a nourishing recipe for chicken-bone soup.Before he became prime minister, acquiring a white bemedalled uniform that made his girth even more impressive, Mr Samak's main claim to fame was his stint as governor of Bangkok.
These days, girth is more likely to signal sickness.
