How to Use edged in a Sentence

edged

adjective

• The goal is a level and straight-edged square of butter.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
• Hence the subtle notes of salted musk and hard-edged graphite to the candle.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2022
• While that can be a double-edged sword, Miller doesn’t mind.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Jan. 2017
• 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, 9 Apr. 2020
• Ready or Not brings a welcome bit of sharp-edged sparkle to these dog days of summer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2019
• In other words, Kaneko didn't use tape to make his sharp-edged lines of color.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• But Trump is a double-edged sword and Pence has been feeling the sharp end of it since Monday.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 May 2017
• If You Get Lost, contends with the dual-edged sword of growing up in the public eye.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• The edged weapon was recovered at the scene, according to the agency.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• 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, 18 July 2017
• Phlox has smooth-edged leaves that grow opposite each other along the stem.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2019
• But Dane also points to the double-edged nature of that appeal.
  — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2018
• Heatlie said Elder has been a dual-edged sword for those who want to boot Newsom.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2021
• Hiding a weapon on yourself can be a double-edged sword.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 July 2017
• Simmons’s late emergence is now something of a double-edged sword for the Spurs.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 22 May 2017
• The low premiums MNsure had in its first year were a double-edged sword.
  — David Montgomery, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2017
• Of course, the laughs in Everett’s work are frequently double-edged.
  — Asali Solomon, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• In the police file, in plastic bags, are a half-dozen misshapen, sharp-edged pieces of bullet that had tumbled through the brain.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• Brexit is a double-edged sword for the Scotch whisky industry.
  — Thomas Buckley, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• 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, 15 Jan. 2020
• Cover the edged bed with black plastic for at least one growing season.
  — Melinda Myers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2018
• 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, 10 Dec. 2020
• Yet that direct model, as Gateway and Dell showed, can be a double-edged sword.
  — Reuters, WIRED, 27 Jan. 2000
• While firearms were used in most of the killings, others involved sharp-edged and blunt instruments or simple bare hands.
  — Jesse Garza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Dec. 2019
• Like all victories in art, this one has a double-edged result.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
• A financial focus is also a bit of a double-edged sword in the court of public opinion and the media.
  — Martha C. White, NBC News, 19 June 2017
• 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, 19 June 2017
• 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, 19 June 2017
• 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, 12 Jan. 2022
• But celebrity is a double-edged sword for any grassroots movement.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 19 June 2017

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024