Wedge

Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.

It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.

She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.

Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.

He's got some decent wedge.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.

She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair.

Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge?

The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.

The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.

The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.

Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č).

I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.

"Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.

He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.

I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.

During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.