Sentence examples for verges are from inspiring English sources

The verges are littered with beer cans.

Grass verges are marked with the signs of half a dozen housing developers.

Landowners who wish to control ragwort face an impossible task when roadside verges are dominated by it to an extent I cannot remember in the past.

Even the inner-city section through the east of Bristol has a peaceful, rural feel - especially in spring, when the verges are blooming with wild flowers.

They added: "It looks anew at the neglected byways of human and animal nature, as well as the Irish countryside, to discover that even the tattered verges are depositories of celebration and devastation in unequal measure".

Another challenge is appeasing the so-called neat and tidy brigade, Dines says, who are likely to complain if the verges are left to grow longer for the benefit of wildflowers.

For so many people, what they see on the verges is often their only contact with nature".

The vegetation of road verges was lower and species numbers were higher than in arable field margins.

"The gravel at the verges was flinty and sharp, and mixed into it were splinters of broken glass.

The organic and conventional winter wheat fields/road verges were paired based on the percentage of semi-natural habitats in the surrounding landscape at 1-km scale.

The results point to roadside verges being an important refuge for small mammals in terms both of greater abundance and population stability.