Etymology
Origin of sedgy
Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at sedge, -y 1
Example Sentences
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It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
The banks of the Kephissus, too, are lined with great reeds, and sedgy marsh plants, which stoop over into its sandy shallows and wave idly in the current of its stream.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
Its favourite summer resorts in England are lakes which are lined with rushes, boggy places on the moors, and sedgy rivers.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
Towns monkishly secluded, girt with ponderous mediæval walls, towns on whose swart and sedgy canals lonely swans glide like milky gondolas, towns like a dream, strengthless, prisoned in sleep eternal.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan
To please Mark he poled the raft to Bamboo Island, and then across to the sedgy banks at the southern extremity of New Formosa, but Mark did not get another shot.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
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