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wedged

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Past of wedge

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Having frantically tried to dig his way out of a barn where hundreds were being burned to death, a man's body lies wedged under a wall where he was shot by German troops.

His day ended in ignominy: it's not easy to act the suave toff with the second assistant director wedged between your legs, working the foot pedals with his hands.

The Palazzo Belmonte is wedged into one end of Santa Maria di Castellabate, once a small fishing village and now a thriving seaside resort mainly patronised by Italian families.

Down the road, meanwhile, another student-housing scheme has taken lessons from London's examples and brutally wedged a new accommodation block behind an existing street front.

Then one of my men pointed out that when I'd bashed my head my tin helmet had wedged over my eyes.

It's occasionally heavy-handed, filming Johnson and King arguing with a portrait of ambivalent slaveholding president George Washington wedged between them.

The country is wedged between Romania and Ukraine, not far from the Black Sea.

One minute Fahad Abdul Kariem was wedged into the hold, legs apart so that another migrant could sit in front of him.

With only 5m people and wedged between Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ("the neighbours from hell", as the king has privately called them), Jordan is now the world's fourth-biggest recipient of American aid.It has also become a hub for western diplomats, businessmen, aid agencies and military people going in and out of Iraq.

She appears honest; home remains a two-storey whitewashed box in a humble bit of Kolkata, wedged between a fetid river and a tumbledown bakery.

The navy's fleet of destroyers and frigates was cut to 25, about the minimum that is currently imaginable.Meanwhile, the ministry is wedged into several Cold War procurement programmes, including the acquisition of 144 mostly-unwanted Eurofighter Typhoons at £50m a pop.

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