Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wedged
IPA transcription: [w'ɛdʒd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: impacted, wedged
    Meaning: wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth"
Usage examples
  • Wedged bolt upright, he could only wait and let the frenzied mob stream past him.
  • The tie was wedged diagonally across the track, and the flange had cut a deep groove in it.
  • She is at present wedged in with the pack, and I think Pennell hopes to warp her along when the pack loosens.
  • Suddenly Jim found himself wedged by the pressure of the crowd into a sort of recess leading off the elevator court.
  • An easy way out of the difficulty seemed, however, to present itself the following Sunday, as I was wedged into the cosmopolitan crowd which filled the side-aisle of one of the most popular Paris churches.
  • As they were passing near the precipice they heard a sound of crying, and on looking over they saw a little green meadow wedged in between two great heaps of snow, and on the meadow lay a baby amongst the flowers.
  • On a certain Sunday--it was probably Easter, for the crush was worse than ever--I was again wedged into the crowd listening to the music in the fashionable Paris church, and again the collection-bag was buffeting its way across the human sea.