Example Sentences

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Criticks, do your worst, that here are met; For, like a Rook, I have hedged in my Bet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Even today’s self-imposed assignment to narrow the list to the 10 likeliest nominees proved a harrowing task; instead, I have hedged with an unlucky 13.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2024

U.S. officials, for their part, say they want an ambitious agreement but have hedged on restrictions.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2023

Foreign governments, meanwhile, have hedged on whether they will offer the Taliban recognition.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

Where we have hedged fields and parklands, they had village communities, moorlands, fens and forests of enormous size.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White