Sentence examples for one wedge from inspiring English sources

This reduction of 1.04 mm on average was due to additional slip of one wedge piece while the wedges were set inside the cavity.

A tight labor market is the one wedge left for making wages outpace inflation.

She urged us to add lime, and after we had squeezed in one wedge, she reached over and squeezed another, then dumped in two spoonfuls of chile.

Though voluntary conservation may be one wedge in an effective carbon-reduction pie, the other wedges will have to be morally boring, like a carbon tax and new energy technologies, or even taboo, like nuclear power and deliberate manipulation of the ocean and atmosphere.

Gregg Sherrill, chief executive of Tenneco, an auto parts company that supplies exhaust systems to American, European, and Japanese makers, said, "Pickups will be one wedge to bring diesel back into the U.S., while the European carmakers will be the other".

If one wedge fails, the right tries another.

Tissue cross-sectional areas and vessel traits were measured on one wedge-shaped transect per replicate (×100; Fig. 1) and fibre characteristics (×400) on one rectangular transect, both stretching from pith to cambium.

Compounding the architectural perfection of the shoe itself was the pose of Miss Knipe's feet: one wedged heel was placed flat on the ground, the other swung back slightly, the tips of the toes of that foot delicately brushed the ground..

Think of a wedding cake in which every tier is the same diameter, and one wedge-shaped slice of any tier represents a server.

That leaves two pieces near her spine, one behind her ear and one wedged inside a molar.

Elroy turned to address the old man's stocking feet, the left one wedged like a trowel: he had lost three toes in Vietnam.