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What makes the latter leap more treacherous is a rock ledge that juts out about 10 to 15 feet from the cliffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
I follow and stop at the ramp’s ledge.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
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
Weeds poked up from neglected garden beds and dozens of orange sandbags sat on ledges and columns, for no apparent reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
Then in spring this year, cameras set up as part of the rat eradication programme caught two puffins coming and going from a nesting burrow on the cliff ledges.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
The praise house was filled with people spilling out the door and sitting on the window ledges.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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
The road came gently winding up to us, from what was evidently two villages ledged one above the other upon the steep summit of the south slope.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Ah, dark garden, dark garden, with your olives and your wine, your medlars and mulberries and many almond trees, your steep terraces ledged high up above the sea, I am leaving you, slinking out.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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
Dee Why-The critical, sucking, ledging point break anchors Sydney's northern beaches.
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
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
