Sentence examples for the girdle from inspiring English sources
noun
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
"The girdle as such is obsolete.
Two decades later, though, the girdle was left for dead.
The large facet in the crown parallel to the girdle is the table; the very small one in the pavilion also parallel to the girdle is the culet.
The girdle of the flightless ratite birds (those with a flat sternum) is little developed.
The girdle is represented by an ankylosed, or fused, scapula and coracoid process.
The girdle is of crystal and coral, and from it at one side a fold of the satin is draped.
There is the girdle of graffiti on its walls, the hand-drawn pictures of animals and flowers.
She thought her host meant her to preserve the rubber in the girdle by putting it on ice.
The widest part of a faceted stone is the girdle; the girdle lies on a plane that separates the crown, the stone's upper portion, from the pavilion, the stone's base.
The girdle is connected with the costal element of one vertebra, thus establishing a sacral region of the vertebral column.
Hell, why not bring back the girdle, nay, even the corset, and really truss up these women like turkeys?
