Synonym: jam, lodge, push, squeeze. Similar words: edge, sedge, hedge, pledge, ledger, dredge, pledged, knowledge. Meaning: [wedʒ] n. 1. any shape that is triangular in cross section 2. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States 3. a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation 4. a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe 5. (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole 6. something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them 7. a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object. v. 1. fix, force, or implant 2. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
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61. Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick.
62. Filings of biscuity paper wedge under my fingernails causing me real pain.
63. The hierarchy feared the move as the thin end of the wedge of secularism and the totalitarian state.
64. Using the payroll tax to finance benefits for the elderly creates what economists know as the tax wedge.
65. Considering the views of those proven achievers helps drive an even greater wedge between centralization and decentralization as a guiding organizational principle.
66. But his wedge shots continually left him in 2-putt range.
67. He was tall, sun-reddened, with a big lower jaw and a nose like a wedge.
68. Thorfinn spurred, and the wedge of men behind him and behind Cormac and behind Ferteth broke into a pounding run.
69. Furthermore the hepatic vein wedge pressure-inferior vena caval mean pressure gradient was normal.
70. Serve each trout on a bed of finely shredded lettuce, garnished with a lemon wedge.
71. Eventually, however, they managed to open a channel in the wedge and bring the leaders through to the barricades.
72. The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in.
73. Romley's lawsuit drove the wedge even farther between the two former friends.
74. It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
75. He pulled out his wedge, sailed the ball over the knoll and it rolled into the cup.
76. Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
77. The ardent left-winger helped launch the Red Wedge pop-meets-politics movement to boost the Labour vote in the 1987 general election.
78. By criminalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court has driven a criminal wedge between the dying and their doctors.
79. At Griffith Park in 1939(http://sentencedict.com), Jimmy Demaret helped his cause in the third round by clever use of his wedge.
80. Part of it was open to the sky, so that a wedge of scalding light fell into the gloom.
81. The door to the sitting room was ajar, and a wedge of light shone out across the stairs.
82. The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
83. Above all, it drove a wedge through the heart of the Conservative coalition.
84. Ultimately such thinking becomes a psychological, relational and spiritual wedge between men and women.
85. He intended to make a dash for his room and wedge a broken chair-leg under the door to keep the monster out.
86. We sometimes carried in our pockets assorted stones to wedge in cracks.
87. The thin end of the wedge is dangerous.
88. His divisive politics drove a wedge into the organization.
89. The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
90. Stellite 6 or cobalt free wedge and seats.