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ledge

[lej] / lɛdʒ /


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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

Last week, Letterman visited Colbert’s show, where both men took to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater and hurled CBS property off the ledge.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

He told the inquest: "The man leaned forward and reached for the dog. He lost his footing and tripped and fell off the ledge."

From BBC Jan. 14, 2026

And there he was, peering down from a cliff ledge.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

A Glasgow academic who was on top of Mexico's Teotihuacán pyramids when a gunman opened fire has told how she escaped by scrambling down its steep ledges.

From BBC Apr. 25, 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

In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.

From Barron's Nov. 20, 2025

And then, with nothing left to count, Turner climbed back up the ledges, with a pile of loneliness on his back as heavy as nightfall.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

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

The fisherman sits paddling in the stern, keeping the ledged side towards the bank and leaning over so as to cause the said ledge to be almost level with the water.

From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Sir W. H. (William Hood) Treacher

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

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

Each section is completely different from the others, from mushy open faces to ledging closeout barrels.

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

Dee Why-The critical, sucking, ledging point break anchors Sydney's northern beaches.

From Time Magazine Archive

With a climb the ledging summit Of the hill is reached in glee.

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice




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