Example Sentences

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Richardson is a perfect example of the extent to which the sheer girths of owners’ egos are eclipsing what should be the NFL’s true narrative: the game.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2017

How to reconcile a lifestyle founded on getting fat and a need to convince others not to widen their own girths?

From Scientific American • May 8, 2012

No matter who tightens the saddle girths, the horses keep on winning.

From Time Magazine Archive

He disapproves of large girths in the Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien