Sentence examples for the verges from inspiring English sources
noun
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
The verges are littered with beer cans.
His obsession is the verges, which must be neatly clipped.
Sudden patches of melancholy thistle punctuate the verges with purple.
Daffodils line the verges around Rattery and the lambs should be audible from behind the hedgerows.
The beetles walked the largest distances in the verges of a field track.
Poetry can exist on the verges of madness and be a lifeline.
Already there were casualties: bloodied men sitting on the verges, bikes twisted.
On residential streets they use the whole street, families next to families, retreating to the verges during the days.
For so many people, what they see on the verges is often their only contact with nature".
So I left too, walking back to the village, where thousands of feet had churned the verges into mud.
Our results indicate that the verges which were of high conservation value for butterflies suffered the least from road mortality.
