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"Hedge" in a Sentence (23 examples)
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
The grass was left long and weedy in the slate walk, and very often he wasn't cutting the grass on the other side of the hedge by the road at all.
The cat crept under the hedge.
The cat got through the hedge.
He jumped over the hedge.
The black kitten hopped to avoid the puddle, and passed under the neighbouring hedge.
Tom trimmed the hedge.
The ball flew over the hedge because David hit it too hard.
Tom jumped over the hedge.
Hedge funds are bailing on Apple.
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He trims the hedge once a week.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
When not inaccurate, much commentary on the contents of Hobson-Jobson is couched in hedges or relies on speculative estimates in the absence of exact information.
The asset class acts as a hedge.
A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.
Attalus[…]made him so dead-drunke that insensibly and without feeling he might prostitute his beauty as the body of a common hedge-harlot, to Mulettiers, Groomes and many of the abject servants of his house.
He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
This particular wheelwright is only a hedge carpenter, without even a shop of his own,[…].
to hedge a field or garden
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
Lollius Urbius […] drew another wall […] to hedge out incursions from the north.
He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
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