How To Use Wedge In A Sentence
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Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of fruit cake on my plate.
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Please wedge this cabinet to keep it from tipping.
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It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
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Serve the oysters topped with the shallot relish and lemon wedges.
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Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside.
How to cook the perfect paella
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No need for extra coaches or extra trains, just wedge more passengers in to the existing carriages.
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You can play this shot off any lie, even bare ground if your wedge has minimal bounce.
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Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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As she entered, I was standing in front of the oversized mirror wedged in between a dozen or so teenaged girls all scrambling to restore their fallen bouffants.
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He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.
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She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door.
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Once you find out they don't fit as planned, prepare to wedge some scrap pieces of material to fill the gaps.
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In the center of campus, wedged between the six outer buildings, was the Mason Courtyard, a large stone courtyard, filled with groves of magnolias and palmettos.
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Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks.
From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
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We all eat skins on wedges and jackets so why throw peel away?
The Sun
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The wedge or snowplow is often one of the first downhill maneuvers a skier learns, but it is not easy to do.
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The look that dominated the '70s has women trading in their high heels for wedges that are casual and often more comfortable.
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Wear with high wedges and serious leg shimmer.
The Sun
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The meal comes to a leisurely close with wedges of custard-filled torta or purchased almond biscotti served with vin santo, a sweet golden dessert wine, or espresso.
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I wedged myself more tightly in front of the TV.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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It failed to impress anyone and is now wedged behind a can of motor oil in the garage.
Smithsonian Mag
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Volumes of solids such as prisms, pyramids, tetrahedrons, wedges, cylinders and truncated cones are calculated.
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Insert the thin end of the wedge.
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This outfit is one of her more hideous concoctions in the way of outfits: white wedge sandals, a mini skirt made from Dalmatian-patterned suede, and a black and white checked t-shirt with a plunging neckline.
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But the danger of arming the policeman on the beat is that it would drive a wedge between the officer and the community.
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Squeeze the lime wedge and drop into the glass.
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‘They saw us,’ he panted as he quickly toppled a suit of armor and wedged it up against the bottom of the door.
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An archway's most important stone is the keystone, the wedge-shaped piece of rock at its apex.
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Their copies of the old text were reprinted in every land and by the middle of the nineteenth century, the cuneiform language (so called because the letters were wedge-shaped and "cuneus" is the Latin name for wedge) had given up its secrets.
Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations
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This was easier than cutting the bricks to make wedges, skewbacks and the arch key.
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A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
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You can also have a cylinder cone roof wedge trigon prism.
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he inserted the wedge into a split in the log
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Spoon hot parsnip purée into the pastry cases, top with mushrooms, add dill garnish with lemon wedge on the side.
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I generally try to load cameras well before a dive, and wedge a small sachet of silica gel in a corner of the housing.
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We could see he was trying to put a wedge between her and us.
The Sun
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The pair almost become wedged in revolving doors.
The Sun
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Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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Push a wedge under the door to keep it open while we're carrying the boxes in.
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The potatoes were cut into wedges, sprinkled with rock salt and cayenne pepper, and cooked alongside the fish.
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Peel and slice onion into thin wedges.
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Here, exoinformation was a wedge used to access more direct streams of information.
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Six policemen were wedged against the gates by the crush of people when the notice was posted on the prison gates.
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I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in.
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It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
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In flight, the long, wedge-shaped tail and prominent white trailing edge of the wing are evident; the underwing usually appears darker than the upperwing.
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We wedged the sides in the casements and, while Graham was outside applying more nails and battens to make it weather-tight, I fetched old towels to mop up the water on the window seat and on the floor beneath.
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The building looks like a giant wedge of cheese cut into the side of a hill.
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Wear with wedges, big sunglasses and a shrunken denim jacket for a really chic daytime look.
Times, Sunday Times
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But would anyone turn up their nose at a wedge of fresh home-baked Victoria sponge, sandwiched with a generous splodge of farmhouse strawberry jam and dairy cream?
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The ancient knappers struck nodules nearly dead center with a wedge initiation of 90 deg.
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I thought if I could hit my lob wedge and stop the ball below the hole, I had a shot at par.
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The Nationals had the advantage of position, their lines projecting in wedge-form towards the Confederate centre, with steep rocky acclivities along their front.
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Big box (foreground): More halloumi, Ajvar, cherry tomatoes, fried zucchini chips, baked potato wedges, and a piece of Knäck.
Swedish Christmas Candy – Knäck! « Were rabbits
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Brazilian navy divers who hauled it to the surface found metal drawers containing ready meals for passengers still securely wedged inside.
The Sun
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And yes, what I thought was a dull, level waistline turns out to be the top of a gentle wedge, and what came across as a slabby rear quarter is a subtly-bulged haunch hugging the rear wheel tightly.
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Garnishes have moved beyond the simple wedge of lime or twist of lemon peel.
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His bag wedged in the crack of the door.
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Amongst the curiosities are the cuneiform types, the wedge-like series of faces in which old Persian, Median, and
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898
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Attractive medium-sized generally conical to cordiform and short wedge-shaped fruit is formed in good yields.
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The building looks like a giant wedge of cheese cut into the side of a hill.
Times, Sunday Times
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At his Ma Restaurant in Berlin's famed Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Mr. Raue has banished starch altogether -- no brot (bread), no nudeln (noodles), no kartoffeln (German potato wedges).
What's Next: Haute Cuisine
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The window doesn't stay closed unless you wedge it.
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Unlike the excise tax, the wedge becomes increasingly larger as the price increases.
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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Put a steak on each plate, pour on the sauce, and serve with a wedge of lime.
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The palatines lie between the suborbital fenestrae, with the anterior palatine processes forming a short V-shaped wedge.
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Today's players throw at a cork board mounted at regulation height and divided into 20 wedges, each narrowing toward the bullseye.
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Weekends at the beach call for designer wedges.
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Worryingly one image appears to show a cell door wedged shut from the inside using a broom.
The Sun
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Garnish with chopped herbs and serve with mango chutney and a lime wedge.
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Serve with a dollop of mascarpone and a scattering of mint leaves and a lemon wedge to squeeze over the top.
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Fig. 1 - 5 double-pointed picks, fig. 1 - 3 with removable blades and fig. 1 - 2 retaining flanch on helmet by using fig. 3 a wedge following the Acmes method.
7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg
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Once it was called Talbot House though the resounding name belies the small bright dwelling wedged into the row which supports it.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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He was wedged in the hole with hardly any room.
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Each one has committed a howler, from getting stuck in railings to being wedged in mid-air between two fences.
The Sun
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The American trainers are also helping the Indian players in utilising the gluteal muscles well and for those who have a problem they have devised a special regimen of weight-training, sliding wedger, Swiss ball and medicine ball.
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A resident of Brewery Gulch, the infamous canyon furrowing north from downtown, decided to spray a beehive wedged in an old brick warehouse.
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Fore wings with eight wedge-shaped luteous streaks, of which three are near the base, two subcostal, two hindward, and one submarginal and transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Yet, wedged into a cavernous socket scooped out of the mountain like ice cream and scoured smooth by wind and rain, the setting is spectacular.
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The driver chocked front wheel with an aluminum wedge roped to the cab and went around to the back of the truck.
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A pen was wedged between the soldier's jaws; the café owner called for a taxi with his cellular phone.
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Spray the wedges lightly with olive-oil cooking spray and sprinkle with half a teaspoon of salt.
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Generally, each degree of loft on your wedges translates to two to four yards in carry distance.
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Nicknamed ‘The Bullet’ because of his speed and intensity, Adams is the wedge buster on the Eagles' kickoff teams.
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Serve with the yoghurt, scattered with paprika, some lemon wedges and a green salad.
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The cuneus is a wedge-shaped area between the calcarine fissure and the medial part of the parietoöccipital fissure.
IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon
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Clean brass with a wedge of lemon dipped in salt.
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When the coffee smelled done, he turned off the camp stove, poured a tin cupful, and wedged the pot in the coals.
ABSOLUTE ZERO
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I need the sole of the sand wedge to help me slide through the grass and the loft to get it up.
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The movable device mainly consists of the nut, bolt, lifting wedge, backseat, supporting seat of the clamp plate, spring and pressure plate and so on.
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‘This dish is made with a semi-soft cow's milk cheese that is over-ripened in Zweigelt red wine for two weeks,’ he continued as he served a neat wedge with peppercorn and sweet fig sauce.
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The two asura trundled along behind this advancing wedge, trailed by a watchful Caithe and a growling Garm.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Now if we can all have the same protection in reproduction, then we would eliminate these wedge issues meant to distract from real issues.
Think Progress » Judge strikes down Arkansas law banning same-sex couples from adopting.
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Penn State busts out 100mm graphene wafers, halcyonic dream inches closer to reality Sony working to wedge laser-based pico projectors into its compact cameras?
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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They would also have used tools such as planes, axes, adzes, draw knives, wedges, knives, chisels, hammers, mallets, awls, gouges, and spoon augers (a type of drill).
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When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your re; ationship with your spouse and daughter.
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I wedged myself more tightly in front of the TV.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Peel off the skin (sometimes it lifts off with the crust), and serve the fish with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and lemon wedges.
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Worryingly one image appears to show a cell door wedged shut from the inside using a broom.
The Sun
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The sea sighs at the feet of the cliffs where fulmars and kittiwakes are sitting hopefully on nests precariously wedged into the narrowest of crevices.
Times, Sunday Times
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As we sit inside one of the Japanese Tea pavilions on austerely placed wooden slats with just a wedge of cushioning, a bearer walks across the narrow ledge between the lily ponds.
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She said she wedged her cot in the open doorway to get it out of a draught.
The Sun
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You need to put a wedge of lemon and a sprig of parsley on each plate.
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The stock was made of hardwood, in two pieces, to simplify forming the wedge mortise.
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None of them are what might be called happy-slappy, airy-fairy wedges of news.
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Taste for salt and serve with a lime wedge.
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Lithium-ion battery supplier Axeon will make new pack for C1 Ev'ie Report: Japanese government orders investigation of 3rd gen Prius brakes Penn State busts out 100mm graphene wafers, halcyonic dream inches closer to reality Sony working to wedge laser-based pico projectors into its compact cameras?
Autoblog
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The car, right, became wedged between the bus stop and metal railings after it landed on the pavement.
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And the wedge that this issue continues to drive between Palmer and his wife is also dramatically utile.
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I was so tightly wedged between two other passengers, I couldn't get off the bus.
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I wedged myself more tightly in front of the TV.
Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
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Arrange the tomatoes and melon wedges decoratively on the couscous and accompany with a lemon wedge.
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Reading about a "daylily bud and petal salad" preceding a "stinging nettle and sea spinach soup" is almost enough to make one yearn for a wedge of iceberg lettuce drenched in Thousand Island dressing.
Gastronomy
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Her snack ideas: celery and salsa; fat-free plain yogurt with fruit (cooked apple, pineapple, berries in season and on sale); baked apple with cinnamon and Splenda; warmed low-fat cheese (Laughing Cow wedges) with a light, toasted English muffin.
Tightening the belt leads to a trimmer, healthier waistline
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He hammered the wedge into the crack in the stone.
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Lincoln focused exclusively on the issue of slavery in new states, ignoring the wedge issues of the day: infrastructure (then called "internal improvements"), immigration (then called nativism), or drugs
Spero News
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There are three different types of surgery: a wedge resection, which is to remove a small section of lung that contains the tumor along with a margin of healthy tissue, a lobectomy, which is to remove the entire lobe of one lung, and a pneumonectomy, which is to remove an entire lung.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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And if so, were they worn with jewelled wedged sandals?
Times, Sunday Times
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The cairn is wedge shaped, tapering towards the west with a court which exceeds 50 feet in length.
A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
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But, like Logan, we need to put aside wedge politics, personal rancor and bitter partisanship to act on behalf of the nation.
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Opponents say it will torpedo already low morale and drive a wedge through faculty solidarity, and that basing merit pay on student performance leaves out all sorts of nonquantifiable aspects of learning.
The Lightning Rod
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The Valley was wedged in-between the two countries, being obscured in mystery and darkness and confusion.
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The ice was seven or eight feet thick, and some of the fissures were a yard wide at the surface, and tapered to a wedge shape at the bottom.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
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The plates themselves are shaped as depicted in Fig. 55, _a, b, c, a_ and _b_ curved to meet the outlines of the shoe, and _c_ shaped so as to wedge tightly over the posterior ends of the side plates, and between them and the shoe.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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A few croutons, some red cabbage shreds and a few wedges of tomato unimaginatively rounded things out.
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At the cancellated ends of the long bones, particularly the upper end of the femur and humerus, and the lower end of the radius, it is not uncommon for one fragment to be _impacted_ or wedged into the substance of the other (Fig. 28).
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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He is a fool that makes a wedge of his fist.
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The surtax of 45 per cent to alleviate unemployment drove a wedge between rural France and Paris, further fuelling class tensions.
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Chop 3 of the tomatoes and cut the remaining one into thin wedges.
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The rest of them was submerged under the bedclothes, their limbs wedged against his.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Distributing the goods gratis, he figured that you could make an honest wedge creating company-specific applications and customisations to run on the basic system and he was right.
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Squeeze over the lemon wedges and sprinkle on some cayenne pepper, then serve with the vegetables and toast cut into triangles on the side.
The Sun
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Well, the derivation is close … “tight” as in “there are no gaps for Opp to drive a wedge into”.
Debaters for Dope
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This hearty wedge of egg stuffed with thin slices of potato, red pepper, tomato and herbs on its own would be worth returning for.
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You add wine, vermouth, chicken stock, a bay leaf, fresh thyme, black peppercorns and an onion cut into 8 wedges.
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Yet of course, once he succumbed and looked, he saw only the wedge-shaped chamber in the gwerbret's broch, all grey and swimmy with shadows.
A TIME OF WAR
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Ryan would hand Athena a can, and she would wedge it in the empty spaces.
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Excluded from the small tool category are hafted bifaces, hoes/adzes, large, ovate disk scrapers, chert hammerstones, larger chisels, wedges, and large bifacial knives/scrapers.
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On one of those many delightful shelves is pads of paper, wedged in there with a paint-jar, paintbrushes, boxes of pencils, pens, crayons, etcetera.
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A poke here, a jab there and suddenly the bizarre piece of plastic that had wedged the ballcock in the upright position causing the cistern to not refill fell away and it filled up.
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For this manicure you will need a wedge makeup sponge, a palette, and a glitter polish.
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Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick.
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Our panel reviewed drivers, fairway woods, irons, wedges, putters, balls and hybrid clubs.
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Accessories include wedged shoes in crocodile, aged leather belts cinched around jackets and blazers recalling Dr. Zhivago.
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It's also possible to have your group move in formations such as columns and wedges.
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Hammers, wedges, chisels, drawknives and planes with saws only occasionally being used.
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Significantly for Madrid, Andorra, which is wedged between France and Spain, was among offshore centers to get removed in 2009 from the O.E.C.D.'s list of "uncooperative tax havens.
NYT > Home Page
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Those who can stomach the pornography will quickly discover a link which offers those with plenty of wedge the chance to bid for the site.
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He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go numb with cold.
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At relatively low shear strains, deformation is apparent from the slight deformation of strain markers, such as the overturning of ice-wedge casts.
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She wedged a chair firmly under the door handle.
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Infants and small children can become wedged in gaps and asphyxiate.
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The use of marriage as a wedge issue by this administration is both infuriating and insulting to me.
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How do you respond to this large silent majority of religious people who are being wedged out of the conversation?
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Wedged by Northern Ireland into the extreme northwest of the island, its back to the sea, Donegal is linked to the republic by a slender isthmus.
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_ Elliptical incision for entropium; _b. _ wedge-shaped incision for ectropium.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
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Expect more attempts to discredit Forrest or distantiate themselves from the Wedge.
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Push a wedge under the door to keep it open while we're carrying the boxes in.
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What's clear, though, is that all you need to play it is three clubs: a driver, a wedge and a putter.
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Even the lemon wedge could not perk it up, nor could the minute bowl of rice and broiled tomato au gratin that accompanied it.
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The desserts - a tall ice-cream sundae, wedges of cheesecake, Key-lime pie, and fat, flaky strudel - are all good enough, provided you have the room.
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The streets are wedged solid with near-constant traffic gridlock.
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You can get away with wedges or a high-heeled strappy sandal, because you're not going to see much of the shoe.
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Then Carne, stepping warily, unlocked the heavy oak door at the entrance of the cellarage, held down his lantern, and fixed with a wedge the top step of the ladder, which had been made to revolve with a pin and collar at either end, as before described.
Springhaven
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I like my chips open or wrapped, with a crisp wedge of battered cod perched precariously on top.
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The music center, which is positioned above the shopping like a keystone connecting the two sides of the building, is wedged in unceremoniously, and visually lost, straitjacketed by the larger building.
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Wedge-heeled white sandals completed her outfit.
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Garnish the fish with wedges of lemon.
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It is often said that eucalyptus makes koalas "stoned" - probably because they sleep for up to 18 hours a day, wedged between branches of eucalyptus trees - but this isn't true: Their high-fiber, low-nutrition diet means they have to sleep to conserve energy.
Taipei Times
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Worcestershire sauce tabasco sauce lemon or lime wedges celery stick small plate celery salt or rimmer
Weekend Cookbook Challenge - Caesars - Three Ways
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Serve with lemon wedges and a cucumber and tomato salad on the side.
Times, Sunday Times
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As even public universities become more privatized, the scramble for external funding wedges the two castes further apart.
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In domain B, the viscous substrate was displaced by the moving backstop and accumulated as a thick wedge against the frontal ramp.
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Then one summer a local political issue drove a wedge through the two sets of parents.
Positive Parent Power
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The wedges have a standard or low-bounce option, in four lofts and three finishes.
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- Successively loosen, saw-off and drive-in again the wedges, one after another.
Chapter 8
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At the point of the wedge, a small cursor glimmered, indicating their current position.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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The base of the trunk is pushed just four feet into the ground and secured with a dozen or more wooden wedges.
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Cut the sweet potato into thick wedges and place them in a shallow roasting tray.
The Sun
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You can buy a serious amount of car for that sort of wedge.
The Sun
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The lower shelves held little crocks of pate and tinsel-wrapped wedges of Camembert.
CORMORANT
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So when the squadrons were arranged in the wedge, he stood himself behind the warriors, and from the wallet which was slung round his neck drew an arbalist.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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Normally I take big divots, but these wedges don't dig at all.
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It narrows to such a degree that there is a risk of becoming wedged by the surge.
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The problem is, the car door is often buckled and wedged shut by the crash.
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Wear with wedge heels for a terrific look.
The Sun
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He intended to make a dash for his room and wedge a broken chair-leg under the door to keep the monster out.
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It is not too much to say that the colonialist condition and its sectarian history drove a wedge between the populace and its writers.
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But forget tottering about in wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Show your toes with strappy flats, heels or wedges.
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He gave an inarticulate cry and attempted to wedge himself further into the corner he was occupying.
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He raised a wedge of plantain to his mouth, thumbing it against the side of his Death Wind.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Also in contrast to certain shoe designs, Giro wanted a neutral platform, free of any built-in varus or valgus wedge or cant.
Tech Feature – Giro launches full line of cycling shoes
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At lower left, one putto sits wedged between a sheaf of wheat that rests upon a pile of game, and grape vines surmounted by a cluster of hanging fowl.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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In cuneiform writing, words are represented by signs incised into clay tablets by a wedge-shaped instrument.
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The conversion of major trunk carriers such as Continental and United and smaller airlines such as Hughes Airwest and Frontier, drove a wedge through the airlines and neutralized the ATA as an opposition force.
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The introduction of a tax on workplace parking is seen by many as the thin end of the wedge.
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Serve with the pickled cucumber on the side and cut the remaining lime into wedges for squeezing over.
The Sun
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If you like a pickled egg or a greasy pie with your pint, you're out of luck; you'll have to make do with a ciabatta with feta and roasted peppers or a big plate of sweet potato wedges and dips from the daily specials board instead.
