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Example sentences for "gird"

Lexicographically close words:
gipsying; giraffe; giraffes; girandole; girandoles; girded; girder; girders; girdeth; girding
  1. Telemachus hastened to gird on his sword and, taking his javelin in his hand, stood by his father's side.

  2. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

  3. He betook himself to the fountain-head of all wisdom and power, and there gathered up strength wherewith to gird himself for what lay before him.

  4. LIV Sericane's monarch, having with his hand Equipt the king of Tartary all o'er, Approached to gird him with that sovereign brand, With which Orlando went adorned of yore.

  5. For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

  6. Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

  7. Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen tunics, and gird them with a girdle: 29:9.

  8. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not.

  9. Thou shalt clothe Aaron with his vestments, that is, with the linen garment and the tunic, and the ephod and the rational, which thou shalt gird with the girdle.

  10. And the angel said to him: Gird thyself and put on thy sandals.

  11. Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

  12. Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them.

  13. Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst.

  14. And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work.

  15. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him: Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner.

  16. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee.

  17. Gird on your sword, and let your heart rejoice, for we have in hand work that may be worthy of us.

  18. Should it be the will of Allah that they fall, then I too must gird on my sword, and yield my last breath amid the din of battle.

  19. Let him see them in the hands of an alien, and then let him gird his loins to a right warfare, and win them back again.

  20. Honesty, before all other virtues, was to gird his very loins, was to protect his very vitals.

  21. First, the Christians are to gird their loins--to cover the lower part of their body, which is the most defenceless.

  22. And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

  23. And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword.

  24. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.

  25. Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

  26. And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

  27. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals.

  28. Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

  29. For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  30. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.

  31. They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  32. Now life must gird itself and go whither it would not.

  33. To gird at them is as much a revolt against the Creator as to complain of the heat of summer or the winter cold.

  34. They had again to gird up their loins for a long journey.

  35. And give me a counsellor6 from among my family, Aaron my brother; By him gird up my loins,7 And make him a colleague in my work, That we may praise thee oft and oft remember thee, For thou regardest us.

  36. We were brought to test ourselves whether we were willing to make our graves in the caverns of the deep or gird on the armor for the Lord's battles.

  37. And the Angel said unto him: gird thyself and bind on thy sandals, And so he did.

  38. Stand therefore and your loins gird about with verity, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and shod with shoes prepared by the gospell of peace.

  39. When Simon Peter heard that it was the lord, he gird his mantle to him (for he was naked) and sprang into the sea.

  40. And did you not gird at me when it was your turn?

  41. Does it become you, sir, do you think, to gird at one who is your prisoner?

  42. Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

  43. Then answered the LORD unto Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

  44. So quick he doth gird on his sword, And asks for blessings from the Lord, He puts his pistols in their case, And carries with him trusty brace.

  45. In youth we spent a pleasant day Round Castle Gordon on the Spey, There is no Clan can gird the sword on, Can compare with the Clan Gordon, In India, China and Soudan, They manfully have led the van.

  46. But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee, and lead thee where thou wouldst not.

  47. Amen, Amen, I say to thee; when thou wert younger, thou didst gird thyself, and didst walk where thou wouldst.

  48. Sae she says to me, Binna cast doun, but gird yoursell up to the great task o' the day, and gie your testimony like a man upon the mount o' the Covenant.

  49. Yet the son of mine ancient comrade is to me as mine own, and I cannot behold him without the deep and firm belief, that I shall one day see him gird on his sword in the dear and precious cause for which his father fought and bled.

  50. Then the oleaginous prophet will get a revelation to gird up his loins and to load the double-barrel shotgun, and fire the culverin, and to knock monogamy into a cocked hat.

  51. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

  52. But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

  53. In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

  54. These discoveries came one by one; but Thyrsis saw enough at the outset to make it clear that the time had come for him to gird up his loins.

  55. So Corydon and Thyrsis had to put all things else aside, and gird themselves for a siege.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gird" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    band; bandage; belt; bend; beset; bind; brace; bundle; buttress; chain; cinch; cincture; circle; compass; confirm; dismiss; encircle; encompass; enfold; fleer; flout; fortify; gibe; gird; girdle; girth; harden; hem; insult; invigorate; jeer; jest; lace; lash; leash; loop; nerve; prop; refresh; reinforce; ring; rope; round; scoff; sneer; splice; stay; steel; stiffen; strap; strengthen; support; surround; sustain; swathe; temper; tie; toughen; truss; twine; wind; wire; wrap; wreathe