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
Thereupon they all three journeyed forth together, until they came to a sedgy marsh, and there they found a white man.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts
Through these they fare, and stand upon the sedgy bank of the river of death.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
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 Rev. C. A. Johns
It is most abundant in grassy and sedgy meadows and in open bogs, though it is found rarely in swamps and tree-covered bogs.
From Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 by L. R. Dice
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