wedge

"What starts off as a nice, flat, supported surface becomes a wedge and so your neck is then kinked up."

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Life can drive a wedge between pals, however.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Johnson showed the same dexterity with his wedge play as he did when winning the 2007 Masters and 2015 Open to cruise to a two-stroke victory in the groundbreaking $3m event.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

But now it’s used to drive a wedge between groups of people, which is unfortunate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Perhaps in time it would come to seem rugged, this chin like a wedge of cheese.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Substituting raw wedges of tomato, which far too often can be floury and tasteless, for slow roasted plum tomatoes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Zooming through the air in a flying Sky-Sled, he wedges his face into a triple chin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

"It was really nice to see some good wedges go my way, and knock in some of the nice six- and eight-foot putts that you have to."

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

Standing around a kitchen island with a small group of other food writers, I pull on a pair of plastic gloves and begin massaging a bright red paste into wedges of cabbage.

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025

I’d split the log by driving steel wedges into the wood.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Taken together, we see hope and its absence wedged in the backseat.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

On Move 78, he wedged a white stone in the middle of AlphaGo’s position and flustered the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The excessive fines clause is the neglected middle child of the Eighth Amendment, wedged between excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment, and almost never litigated.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

On arrival, he said Shannon was "pretty firmly wedged".

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Sun Girl agreed, and while she went off in search of assistance, Duane continued staying wedged in the fishing hole, pondering how the day was turning out quite differently from how he had imagined.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Artificial intelligence boosters spent the year wedging the tech into our lives – whether we wanted it or not.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2026

Owens and her family saved the house, wedging plywood underneath the doorways during the storm and mopping up water faster than it seeped inside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The potential for wedging strategies between Russia and China remains viable due to underlying structural tensions and competing interests, particularly in Central Asia where both powers seek influence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

England kept them to just the one score, with Cokayne wedging herself under Eva Karpani to deny the Australia prop a try during Australia's early period of ascendancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

In the winner’s circle, the police cordon gave way and the reporters and fans pressed in again, wedging Seabiscuit and his handlers into the corner.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand