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ledge

[lej] / lɛdʒ /


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“Between the homes, a freeform pool curves through natural rock, hiding a grotto and a slide, with a shallow ledge for lounging and an elevated spa,” according to the listing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Using a rope system, a volunteer was lowered to the ledge to reach the dog before she was "hauled back up the gorge where she was reunited with her owners".

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

On the window ledge sit the manly accoutrements of shaving: a Barbasol aerosol canister and a safety razor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

I crawled back along the ledge, trying not to look at the poor dead bird, its feathers blowing in the wind.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

"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

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

The legs and torso have been carved from natural ledges of the rock in such a way that the shapes seem to emerge almost imperceptibly from the stone.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

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

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

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

"Whatever it may pretend to mean, what it is is a silly absurd toy-lamb with a Christmas-tree flag ledged on its paw—and if it wants to mean anything else, it must look different from that."

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

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

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

From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice


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