girdle
noun
a lightweight undergarment, worn especially by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.
will girdle
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future tenseof girdle.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2023
A strong and exclusive guest list will girdle it in.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2018
People who live near present-day military airfields are unhappily familiar with supersonic bangs from fighter planes, but, says Lundberg, when commercial air travel goes supersonic, the boom will girdle the globe.
From Time Magazine Archive
With more perfect apparatus and the knowledge that comes with experience we may expect that speech will girdle the earth.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers
Put them in rank, joining hands, and they will girdle the globe ten times at the equator with living, beating human hearts.
From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Arthur Judson Brown
