How To Use Edgewise In A Sentence
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For two days after Lizzie's arrival in camp, she refused to speak or eat; for the next two days she ate everything she could lay her hands on, but still kept an unbroken silence; and for another two days, whenever she was not eating, she "yabbered" so much and so fast that the other gins looked on aghast, unable to get a word in edgewise, so continuous was the flow of Hinchinbrook vituperation.
Australian Search Party
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(I only listen, because most of them refuse to let me get a word in edgewise) … tend to be concerned only with themselves.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010
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At our family dinner table, it was difficult to get in a word edgewise.
Sleepwalk With Me
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Jermaine got a few words in edgewise, but Baby Michael dominated.
There will never be another (Jack Bog's Blog)
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As soon as he could get a word in edgewise, he roared right back.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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I didn't want to appear surly, but a word had to be honed mighty thin to slip in edgewise, so I concentrated on the tea, cucumber sandwiches, and seedcake, suppressing wistful thoughts about a pub.
Operation Luna
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It involves digging and pickax work, as well as delicate handiwork, like carefully splitting open shales edgewise to reveal the fossils that have been trapped between the pages of rocks pasted together.
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He has, ever since, been there, peeping in at me in my torment; revealing to me by snatches, in the pale lights and slatey shadows where he comes and goes, bare-headed — a bill-hook, standing edgewise in his hair.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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She was so adamant on showing me how to use this loofah that I couldn't get a word in edgewise to tell her I wasn't interested in loofahs at all.
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When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
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held it edgewise
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Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral-red pentstemon.
The Land of Little Rain
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Even from the start, there were times where the GM was trying to get a word in edgewise for like 5 minutes while people babbled on loudly about whatever story, movie review, or whatever came to their mind.
Fourth “Empire of Ashes” Session Summary Posted « Geek Related
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Well, that is, if you can get a word in edgewise while Republicans are busy getting them riled up about health insurance mandates.
Matthew Yglesias » The Price of Depression, the Upside of Optimism
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I know there are plenty of conservative policy positions that are worth discussing — I wish they would get a word in edgewise between the lies and the fear-mongering.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently
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The clamor rose to such a level, that no one could get a word in edgewise.
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TD this and Tony that, I could not even get a word in edgewise about my favorite player, Brad Van Pelt.
Tony Dorsett Field Sneakers from Converse - The Retroist
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I agree," jumps in Elisabeth Hasselbeck the show's token right-wing blonde who, has been looking for an opportunity to get a word in edgewise and who, like Sherri, is still operating on the mistaken believe they are conducting an actual interview.
Stephen Colbert walks out on 'The View'
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In cloisonné enamelling cells, or cloisons, are built up on a thin sheet of metal by attaching metal wire or fine strips of metal fixed edgewise.
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When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
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Oh, yes, and never let the interviewer get a word in edgewise to tell the truth.
Think Progress » Rove Falsely Claims Bush Administration Never Said Iraqi Oil Revenue Would Help Pay For War
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Gosh, it's hard to get a word in edgewise these days!
Aubade - French Word-A-Day
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Kagg was on the phone, his face red, not getting a word in edgewise.
CORMORANT
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The orangish arc extending to the left from the aurora is airglow viewed edgewise on the limb of the Earth.
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And yet it is full of couch potatoes rolling doobie after doobie and overly felicitous teeth-grinding cokeheads trying frantically to get a word in edgewise.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 4: 55 pm maybe a little respect for the other readers who might want to get a word in edgewise mught be in order for you.
Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum
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The clamor rose to such a level, that no one could get a word in edgewise.
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To be bored to tears, fighting sleep, regarding his conversation as blah, blah, blah, and feeling you cannot get a word in edgewise are pretty unambiguous signs of, let us say, incompatibility.
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The woman who at first so impressed you now seems like a bore who won't let anyone else get a word in edgewise.
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I could not get a word in edgewise
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When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
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Just lift your hand upward edgewise, turn it slowly, then push it down flatwise, slowly.
Destination Brain
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Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon.
The Land of Little Rain
