wedge
noun
a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer.
wedgelike
-
a word derived from
wedge.
Example Sentences
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Like the original, it features a roaring V-12 engine, angular wedgelike styling, triangular side air intakes, and a louvered rear window.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
“An act? No. If anybody is acting, it’s us. She’s as real as”—he looked around; he picked up the tiny, wedgelike skull of Barney, a 60-million-year-old Paleocene rodent, and held it up—“as real as Barney.”
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
His brows knit together into a wedgelike furrow, and with a twitch of pain he bit his underlip.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
He was as tough as that lumberman's implement and wedgelike, too, in his power of disrupting the dividing elements which, but for him, might have hung together in harmony.
From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck
One of the wedgelike stones of which an arch is composed.
From Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations by James Slough Zerbe
