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Example sentences for: edged
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He edged out his mentor and last year's winner, Dale Earnhardt, by 0.128 seconds.
Around them edged subalterns, each plucking away like a blue-suited migrant worker the decorations that went up before each stop.
Thompson recently came up with $25 million more for "affordable quality child care" as welfare mothers head to work--$20 million to ensure that the working poor aren't edged out of the subsidized care they count on, and $5 million to increase the supply and quality of overall care.
But the critique that follows is icy: We are warned that the poem admits to a sense of being "challenged or even edged aside by history" (it does no such thing), and that the title ("On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer") registers that "Keats felt he had come late to high culture."
I found only Christ and the Virgin and the occasional saint, clad in ceremonial garments edged with golden or pearl-sewn words from liturgy or Scripture--but these were worn only in heaven.