Sentence examples for huge girth from inspiring English sources
Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), who had made poetry out of Linnaeus's biological classifications, distressed Roget with his huge girth and sloppiness.
It is Tolkein's description of emerging spring in The Two Towers that I find most evocative of the season's woodland flowers: "Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades," he writes, "with here and there among them hoary ash-trees, and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds.
He staggered like a linebacker rising from a sack, his huge girth moving out of synch with his head.
"It's a little life," his mother used to say, a line that is echoed in "The History Boys" by the rambunctious general-studies teacher Hector Richard Griffithss, in a performance as huge as his girth), whose love of knowledge for its own sake is forced to take a back seat to the glib methods of another teacher, Irwin Stephen Campbell Mooree), who is hired to get exam results.
They are huge, about 15 feet long, and their girth can be 8 feet in diameter, but they have these funny, curious personalities.
The tree had a girth of 42ft 5in (12.9m) with a huge hollow trunk big enough to seat six people at a table.
Hence my expanding girth.
