Sentence examples for mark an edge from inspiring English sources

Or rather, that the continued vitality of the word — its unique ability to convey emphasis, relieve stress, shock grown-ups and function as adverb, noun, verb, intensifier and what linguists call "infix" — rests on its ability to mark an edge between the permissible and the profane.

We marked an edge as conserved in the query species if any edge between possible orthologous nodes in the reference species was conserved.

Russell is off the mark with an edge down to third man, and Samuels is more emphatic from the next delivery, a crashing offside drive but it's straight to a fielder and brings only one run.

Du Plessis gets off the mark with an edge past slip, the defends to defy the three catchers lurking around the bat.

On the outside of each plate, make a mark close to an edge and a mark on the opposite side of the plate; these marks pinpoint the positions of the origin of the worms and the location of the attractive odorant.

Even better, the pound's weakness against the D-mark gave them an edge over foreign competition.

Though new to most skiers, Zuma is actually terra cognita to many backcountry skiers, who have long made the descent through a backcountry gate at its top that formerly marked A-Basin's southern edge.

The notation marks a falling edge.

Julia Mancuso, Vonn's American rival at Vancouver, skied before Vonn on Friday and was timed among the leaders at the halfway mark until she caught an edge and tumbled.

Country Décor With a Bit of an Edge MARK McDONALD'S new store, 330, in the relaxed town of Hudson, N.Y., will have a looser mix than he offered in his New York shops, although his current inventory includes pieces from Fifty/50 and Gansevoort Gallery.

The trick is to have an edge or mark of some kind, to do something with materials, subject matter or visual signs that makes it your own, something that everyone will recognize and identify with you.