How to Use gird in a Sentence

gird

verb
  • Anyone who lives for the thrill of a great markdown, gird your loins.
    — Tiffany Dodson, SELF, 2 June 2021
  • Perhaps as practice, to gird ourselves for the worst-case scenario.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Baker said Yolo Food Bank is girding for the short term.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • So, if you're not easily offended, gird your ears and give it a listen.
    — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2012
  • And gird your loins young ones, for the 45-year-olds are especially prowl-y, in that the gap shoots up past nine years.
    — Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The Onyx leather is a deep and rich black, and it’s girded beautifully by the sturdy white sole.
    — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The movie rights itself in the end, though, and its title is wittily designed to gird it against criticism.
    — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • But its latest bid to gird that backing with a fresh increase monthly child subsidies hasn’t prompted a poll surge.
    — Stephanie Bodoni, Bloomberg.com, 7 June 2023
  • It is girded with jewels and topped with a jeweled cross to show Jesus’ dominion over the world.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • The first ingredient listed on the label is sugar, and, gird your teeth, these cookies are sweet.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 27 Oct. 2021
  • The agents of immunity are so risk-averse that even the dread of facing off with a pathogen can sometimes prompt them to gird their little loins.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 8 June 2021
  • With these shaky warnings, Icelanders were girding for the eruption that came Monday night.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Now is the time for CPOs to harden their processes and gird their teams for the next seismic shift.
    — Richard Waugh, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • To the contrary, its ever-shortening profile is helping gird me for the brutal days of winter ahead.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Or should Britons gird themselves for the passing of another sovereign?
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Many who took the stage before and after her, however, spoke the language not of forgiveness but of girding for battle.
    — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Officials are also girding for the potential impact of strikes.
    — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Men far outnumbered women, and a bright ribbon of divorce wove through the older males, girding some and racing toward others.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • That's often on promenades, like this one by Carter Road, that gird the Arabian Sea.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Some of his memos merely requested the dictionary definition of certain terms, as if to steady the chaos around him (or to gird a legal case for it).
    — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
  • Monday has thus become a two-track day — bargaining under intense pressure as parents and workers girded for a walkout.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Grant, who describes herself as a person of color, spends most of her time sequestered at home and has to gird herself with extra pain medication just to shop or do her laundry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Colleges across the country are girding for the demographic cliff of fewer young people enrolling due to a decades-long, nationwide decline in birth rates.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Surely the network girded itself for some unfavorable headlines stemming from the lawsuit.
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Picket signs were printed, and everyone girded their loins for an even more total shutdown of the entertainment industry.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • On the border, authorities girded for a deluge of migrants as if preparing for a weather disaster.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2023
  • After Saturday, Cincinnati will have two weeks to gird itself for an away day at Atlanta United.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Taiwanese voters, those who supported Lai and those who chose two opposition candidates, are girding themselves for a rocky four years.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • What McPherson is yearning for now is a fail-safe uniform of sorts—clothes that will gird her against the uncertainty of our hazy and not-quite-post-pandemic world.
    — Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Aug. 2023
  • With both a trustee and mayoral election in the offing for next year, the committee is girding itself for a hot and heavy election season in 2027.
    — Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026

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