Sentence examples for edged from inspiring English sources
The word "edged" is correct and usable in written English
It is a verb meaning to be furnished with an edge or border. For example, you could say "The frame was edged with gold leaf."
verb
Past of edge
- Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.
Upstream capital spending edged lower last year, falling to $147.4bn as companies reacted to the surprise fall in the oil price, the first dip in upstream investments in at least nine years.
A narrow scramble, no wider than a sheep track, edged over the heaps of waste rock towards a larch wood within a ferny, stone wall.
The Western Bulldogs edged out West Coast in an intoxicating first-round contest, winning by 10 points to hand coach Luke Beveridge a winning debut as a coach.
Ferguson gave United the lead after 29 minutes, but again the team would have to come from behind in the Cup, former player Coyne equalising before Keith Wright edged Dundee in front before the break.
So Dixons edged up 0.11p to 50p but Carphone closed 16.4p lower at 322.9p.
Overall the leading index has edged up 6.58 points to 6687.66, with investors nervous about the prospect of the US Federal Reserve tapering its $85bn a month bond buying programme, following Wednesday night's minutes from the central bank's last meeting.
There was time for Kevin Pietersen to hit one more huge six, struck with massive assurance into the stand close to the Surrey dressing room, and to pass 350, before the Surrey No11 Matthew Dunn inside-edged a short delivery from Ben Raine into his thigh pad, and thence into the hands of short leg.
In a big year for Arthur Miller, Yael Farber's revival gave this flinty, hard-edged study of the Salem witch-hunts a strange dream-like quality and, headed by Richard Armitage and Anna Madeley as the fractious Proctors, showed a community already on the edge of disintegration.
On a sad, black-edged day for rugby's brotherhood it speaks volumes for Jerry Collins that his untimely death is being mourned far beyond New Zealand and his native Samoa.
It wasn't gilt-edged, but it was a chance nonetheless - Manuel Neuer was forced to save from a header that was weak but on target.
Hitherto best known as the rough-edged Calamity Jane in TV's Deadwood, the wonderful Robin Weigert gives a pointed, peppery performance as the less content half of a moneyed Garden State lesbian couple, who finds the inner ignition that motherhood and interior design have failed to show her when she embarks on a secret career as a high-end escort to other women in her position.
