| Armoured battle tanks girdled a handful of Boeings and uniformed soldiers were conspicuous. |
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| She was girdled up within an inch of her life in a high-waisted dress that had to be made. |
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| According to their research, the droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following the impact. |
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| The bus stop in her village is a semi circle of paved road girdled by a hillock. |
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| Elegant arcades girdled courtyards but most remaining today have been roughly adapted to modern needs. |
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| Trees up to 3 feet in diameter can be felled and larger trees can be girdled. |
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| Forty-five branches were girdled to control their leaf-to-fruit ratio precisely. |
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| Here is a meadowlark atop a regal walnut, next to it a young nectarine tree girdled with compost. |
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| Those with a flat, narrow mount of Venus girdled by the Life Line are cold and unresponsive. |
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| It is necessary to resort to inarching when the roots as well as the trunk have been girdled. |
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| The earth is, at the moment, girdled by about 500 working satellites and more are added every month. |
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| A large patio stepped down to a lawn girdled by flowers and cedars. |
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| The rocky cores are girdled by cliffs which are constantly eroded by waves. |
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| Kitchen table of French style square foot with girdled panel, drawer on two sides. |
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| About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church. |
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| The mandorla, or sunburst, is supported by six angels, wearing girdled albs, gathered at hip level, and amices, with carved looped clouds or stars at their feet. |
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| They have transparent barrel-shaped bodies that are girdled by muscle bands and open at each end. |
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| Nursery stock may have a layer of bark girdled by hungry rodents, thus effectively killing the tree. |
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| Cankers may enlarge so rapidly that the stem becomes girdled without callus formation. |
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| The foliage may show a withering and, once the trees are girdled by the canker, they die. |
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| Note that the entire trunk is girdled, blocking the flow of nutrients and water through the trunk. |
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| Han bas-reliefs and scenes painted on tiles show men and women dressed in wide-sleeved kimono-like garments which, girdled at the waist, fall in voluminous folds around their feet. |
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| Along our pergola, I have trained espalier pears that had just about furnished each horizontal bar, but canker has completely girdled my beautiful 'Jargonelle' and we are left with the lower tier. |
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| The monuments and the reference marks of this past are strewn a little everywhere in the city, always girdled by the old wall, one kilometer long. |
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| Stems less than 2 cm in diameter are usually girdled within the season. |
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| Independence is being conferred on those who, at the beginning of the twentyfirst century, created Serbian ghettos in Europe ghettos girdled with barbed wire and surrounded with cannon barrels and soldiers armed to the teeth. |
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