Words similar to edged

Example sentences for: edged

How can you use “edged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Perhaps Dr. Ober, too, if I might venture a criticism at this point, has edged beyond the critical angle of irony, cutting it too fine in his approach and thereby risking a literal reading.
If only Lamar had won 3,500 more votes in the 1996 New Hampshire primary, he would have edged Bob Dole for second, driven Dole out of the race, and cruised to the nomination.
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.
Perhaps the best example of this paradigm is the touch-tone phone, which has so edged out the older models that two backwords were formed for the old type: rotary phone and dial phone . On the other hand, cellular phones are still new enough to have their own novelty label.
From Otemachi subway station, you enter the gardens at the Otemon Gate and wander through hedgerows of white and pink azaleas, around ponds and little waterfalls edged with pines, plum trees, canary palms, and soft green cryptomeria japonica.