How to Use edged in a Sentence
edged
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The goal is a level and straight-edged square of butter.
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 2021-04-09
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While that can be a double-edged sword, Miller doesn’t mind.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 2017-01-19
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Hiding a weapon on yourself can be a double-edged sword.
—Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2017-07-06
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Hence the subtle notes of salted musk and hard-edged graphite to the candle.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 2022-09-07
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Phlox has smooth-edged leaves that grow opposite each other along the stem.
—Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 2019-07-25
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In other words, Kaneko didn't use tape to make his sharp-edged lines of color.
—Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 2018-02-17
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Ready or Not brings a welcome bit of sharp-edged sparkle to these dog days of summer.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2019-08-21
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Like all victories in art, this one has a double-edged result.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 2020-01-13
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That drive is double-edged, bringing out the best while breaking someone down.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 2022-11-26
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But celebrity is a double-edged sword for any grassroots movement.
—Sarah Jones, New Republic, 2017-06-19
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But Dane also points to the double-edged nature of that appeal.
—Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2018-02-01
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The edged weapon was recovered at the scene, according to the agency.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 2020-04-22
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Brexit is a double-edged sword for the Scotch whisky industry.
—Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg.com, 2017-04-28
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Simmons’s late emergence is now something of a double-edged sword for the Spurs.
—Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 2017-05-22
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Heatlie said Elder has been a dual-edged sword for those who want to boot Newsom.
—Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 2021-09-12
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Of course, the laughs in Everett’s work are frequently double-edged.
—Asali Solomon, Washington Post, 2022-11-03
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In Zika's case the story seems to be more about what didn't happen, and that's a double-edged sword.
—Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 2017-07-18
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The low premiums MNsure had in its first year were a double-edged sword.
—David Montgomery, Twin Cities, 2017-02-15
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Many of their best songs have a deliberateness on the topic of how to build a life, both wistful and hard-edged.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2020-12-10
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Yet that direct model, as Gateway and Dell showed, can be a double-edged sword.
—Reuters, WIRED, 2000-01-27
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In the police file, in plastic bags, are a half-dozen misshapen, sharp-edged pieces of bullet that had tumbled through the brain.
—oregonlive, 2019-10-05
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The tool from France was a sharp-edged flint used for cutting, and the string could have tied it to a handle, Hardy said.
—Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, 2020-04-09
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But Trump is a double-edged sword and Pence has been feeling the sharp end of it since Monday.
—Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2017-05-18
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If You Get Lost, contends with the dual-edged sword of growing up in the public eye.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 2021-06-30
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For a modern presentation, place the dull edge of a knife or other flat-edged tool against top rim of bowl and scrape any excess cream off the edge.
—Rick Martinez, Bon Appetit, 2017-06-19
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For one wall, Mr. Stadtländer used a jigsaw to cut wavy-edged panels from elm wood, also from his forest.
—Nancy Matsumoto, WSJ, 2017-09-14
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In Madden's movie that upstart is John Brown, a rough-edged Scottish stable hand
—Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader, 2017-10-02
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The exhaust note is hard-edged and raspy when pressed, with a smattering of pops and bangs on a lifted throttle in Sport and Sport Plus mode.
—Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2020-01-15
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The Bruins lead with arguably the league’s most complete first line, and coach Bruce Cassidy is unafraid to use his hard-edged fourth line against anyone.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2019-10-14
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Ronnie Spector, whose hard-edged yet tremulous voice soared on the Ronettes’ girl-group hits of the early ‘60s, died on Wednesday of cancer.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 2022-01-12
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