Sentence examples for narrow wedge from inspiring English sources

All that remained of the Reich was a narrow wedge of territory running southward from Berlin into Austria.

"He was already going to be the Everything Store," Sargent said when we met in his trapezoidal office, in the narrow wedge of the Flatiron Building.

In an interesting variation on this dish, the blood sausage and liverwurst were encased in a narrow wedge of crisp strudel, served with a bracing horseradish-and-apple sauce.

At the top, a narrow wedge of space connects the staircase to the gallery, inducing a sudden sense of compression before you experience the release of stepping into the exhibition.

This may be the one narrow wedge of common ground between Ansar al-Shariah and senior Obama administration officials who say they have not seen signs of advance planning or Al Qaeda involvement, although intelligence analysts are trying to determine whether Ansar fighters and Qaeda operatives communicated before the assault.

It consists of a narrow wedge of territory extending northward for about 420 miles (675 kilometres) from the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, on which it has a 75-mile seacoast, to the Niger River, which forms part of Benin's northern border with Niger.

In a show about surveillance and control, the forum's awkward gallery space, spread over five levels of its narrow, wedge-shaped headquarters, becomes an advantage.

Or cut narrow wedges for an aperitif hors d'oeuvre.

Instead, consider narrow wedges of French glacé melon, which resembles dried fruit but is fragrant, lush and moist, with a rich concentration of melon flavor.

The shop is narrow, wedged between a florist and a beauty salon, and has the sleek appearance of a patisserie, with mocha-brown walls, marble floor tiles and glass urns of biscotti, almond horns, raspberry butter cookies, tartlets and other treats displayed along the serving counter.

The phloem forms an entire ring around the stele; it is most easily recognizable opposite a leaf gap, where it forms a narrow wedge-shaped patch of large, thin-walled cells that projects slightly towards the gap in transverse section (Figs.  3, 4a).