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.
were wedging
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past progressiveof wedge.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I had neither ax nor nippers, only a long-bladed knife, and densely packed beasts were wedging themselves tighter and tighter against the other side of the barrier.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss
The fringe of the crowd was in a continual uproar; from its extremities the opponents of the measure were wedging their way in.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
They were wedging themselves into every conceivable angle, and the crowding procession from above was adding to the barrier momentarily.
From The Iron Trail by Rex Ellingwood Beach
