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A 17-year-old jumper, according to social media footage, struck the ledge with his backside and crashed into the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
You place a rock on a ledge outside your room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We have a great country. We have a country that is under a little bit of a ledge right now," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Pigeons all clustered up on a ledge clucking away like only pigeons can, but the noise continued even after I opened my eyes in the darkness of night.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
The council has asked businesses in the town's centre to consider putting spikes and other deterrents on their building's front ledges.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Cracks have appeared, elements such as ledges, rubble and walls have fallen and damage has been reported in some buildings," Andalusian emergency services said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Santa Monica resident Rojia Shahsavani said she witnessed three boys taking selfies and sitting on the open window ledges of a white Waymo that traveled from Santa Monica into West L.A. last Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Some tourists have resorted to hiding trash in hedges or leaving plastic bottles or cups on ledges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026
He guided them along one of five narrow ledges, all of which led to a grooved and rutted plateau.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
Black bass are good with several ten plus pound fish happening every week found in creek beds, points, and ledged drops.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Of its dimensions but little idea can be had; enough that it was a roomy, roughened interior, with ledged and broken walls and floor.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
It is used for nailing on framing to form partitions for rooms, offices, etc., for panelling corridors, etc., and for making framed and ledged doors, building tool houses, cycle sheds and other outhouses.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
The swirling water went round and round under the fall, with lines of white bubbles rising, and quivering masses of yellowish foam ledged on the red rootlets under the bank and against the flags.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
Yet there is, unseen, this overshadowed, overhung, sordid mountain population, ledged on the slopes and in the crevices.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Breaks best: May-September Type of wave: A surreal, ledging left that looks more like an avalanche or a tidal wave than anything you'd think was surfable.
From Time Magazine Archive
We ran 300 yards down the road to find a ledging, overhead shelf throwing onto a shallow rock bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each section is completely different from the others, from mushy open faces to ledging closeout barrels.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dee Why-The critical, sucking, ledging point break anchors Sydney's northern beaches.
From Time Magazine Archive
And somewhere in those ledging, pearly villages in front must be my girovago and his "wife".
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
