wedge
Example Sentences
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Over the next six decades, as the glacier retreated, the wedge expanded into a long finger, and the size of the lake grew twelvefold.
It was a tiny one-room shack wedged into the crotch of a maple, with firm boards nailed into the trunk as a ladder.
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A sliver of doubt wriggles around in my brain, cramming itself next to my wedge of loyalty.
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She looked up from her landing place, where she’d managed to become wedged between the legs of the smallest chair.
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Somehow, creaky tiled houses have been wedged here between enormous outcroppings of glacial boulders.
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