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.
wedges
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pluralof wedge.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof wedge (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
wedgenouna 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.
Example Sentences
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Substituting raw wedges of tomato, which far too often can be floury and tasteless, for slow roasted plum tomatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Zooming through the air in a flying Sky-Sled, he wedges his face into a triple chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
And this week, even if bombed drives missed wide fairways, the belief was that players would be able to gouge wedges out of the thick rough onto greens and lead to a putt-off.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
"It was really nice to see some good wedges go my way, and knock in some of the nice six- and eight-foot putts that you have to."
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
In the kitchen, when the manager wasn’t looking, she ate the leftover wedges of toast and cold forkfuls of scrambled eggs from the plates instead of scraping them into the garbage.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
