Example Sentences

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He had wedged himself against a tree to avoid sliding and suffering major injuries.

From Washington Times • Mar. 4, 2021

In that case, big ice lumps had wedged under a bridge and had to be dislodged by a crane, according to a New York Times article about the event.

From The Verge • Jan. 12, 2018

Woody Tasch bellowed from the stage of the Boulder Theater, where 650 food entrepreneurs and investors had wedged themselves for the opening day of the fourth Slow Money National Gathering.

From New York Times • May 2, 2013

And at one point, it looked like Breyer and Justice Anthony Kennedy, seated on her right, had wedged her in between them to keep her upright.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2013

And Billy and the Maori and others helping them with their particular hole came at last to a membrane of timbers laced over rocks which had wedged together to form an accidental dome.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut