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Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 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
The two men had to wait on a ledge for hours until they could be found, then had to leave the mountain without their mate.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
On Sunday, a friend took the couple through their vows as they were standing on a cobblestone ledge at the foot of a waterfall on the 121-year-old Ruskin property about an hour out of Nashville.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Without a word Dad sits down on the ledge we’ve been digging.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
"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
"Exposed rock ledges, sections of ice breaking away and glacier tongues collapsing in on themselves are increasingly shaping the landscape."
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
And instead of nailing my art to the walls, I had multiple ledges installed that allow me to move pieces around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Up and up and up she went, methodically climbing past nests and ledges and tiny trees rooted in the cracks, and before long our robot felt the soft soil of the island beneath her feet.
From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
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
Across the saucepan we ledged a sooty swivel, and on the swivel a black tin kettle which leaked slowly into the flame.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
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
The mortar is taken up in a hod or hoisted in pails and deposited on ledged boards about 3 ft. square, placed on the scaffold at convenient distances apart along the line of work.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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
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
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
There was a small ledging or bar on this hatch to rest the tankards on.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
