Ginger Bill gave them a cheer as they went past him, but they heard nothing and saw nothing but that solid mass of grey German uniforms, wedged like herrings in a barrel where they had no right to be--in a British trench!
I have seen salmon wedged into some of the small streams until you could almost walk on them.
In one place, while thus holding the front of the sled on the trail, Walter slipped into an ugly ice crack concealed by drifted snow, and so wedged his foot that I had difficulty in extricating him.
I therefore had themwedged and put into serviceable condition.
We abandoned our bacon and heavier stores, the drays were put into order, their wheels wedged up, their axles greased, and on the 6th of December, at 5 p.
About the middle of June I had the drays put into serviceable condition, the wheels wedged up, and every thing prepared for moving away.
Numbers of different kinds of shell-fish were attached to the coral branches, or wedged into their interstices.
Even if she'd been wedged in tightly between two male escorts at the bar, I'd have noticed a part of all that.
There were twenty-five or thirty passengers wedged into the middle section of the train, all standing in slightly cramped postures and most of them unsmiling.
In a seat, with people jamming the aisle in front of me, I'd have been wedged in even more securely.
But the gun helped too, the gun wedged so closely against his ribs under his heart that he feared that if he breathed too heavily he would breathe his last.
Finally hewedged his fingers under the base of the mask, and ripped it from the guard's face.
The main consideration will be the manner of getting a proper attachment of parts that cannot be wedged or forced together at once, in fact, to get a good purchase or leverage.
The solid end of the graft is chiselled or planed off to a slightly wedged form with a straight or square upper end which is measured to reach when inserted, nearly or just up to the lowest of the upper two peg-holes.
Here again much care must be taken, as the toothing of the file is arranged somewhat in the fashion of a screw, and if the tool is used one way it soon buries itself, becomes tightly wedged and will inevitably split the surrounding wood.
Catilina was wedged in on both sides, and his supplies came to an end; nothing was left but to throw himself on the nearest foe, which was Antonius.
But presently an involuntary muscular contraction stole over him, and his terrible dying grasp held the poor girl as if she were wedged in an engine of torture.
Why, it was that very supernumerary fish, which we held of so little account, but which had wedged itself into the rent of the yawning planks, and served to keep out the water until the leak was finally stopped.
The sleigh was driven by a man who looked as if he might be a German, and on the back seat, wedged in by a number of packages, were two other German-looking individuals.
The man had his arms and one leg free, but several seats and some handbaggage were wedged in across his left leg and his stomach in such a manner that he seemed unable to extricate himself.
This was wedged in between the ceiling and the side of the car, and the boys had to use all their strength before they could dislodge it.
The front ranks of the knights, wedged so tightly together by the impact of the enemy that they could not lay their lances in rest, much less spur their horses to the charge, fought and died.
Imperial guards, light troops, lancers, foederati and infantry of the line were wedgedtogether in a press that grew closer every moment.
If infantry was already on the spot to aid the pursuing cavalry, success was almost certain, when the Saracens and their train of beasts, laden with spoil, were wedged in the passes.
In some strange way, she knew not how, his head had become wedged at the neck between the tops of the pickets of her fence.
A large man, wedged sidewise in the jam, was shoved against Saxon, crushing her closely against Billy, who reached across to the man's shoulder with a massive thrust that was not so slow as usual.
And, climbing down, we found her, wedged in between some timbers so that she could not move.
In the morning they found ice cakes so wedgedin that they were able to walk ashore.
It was all we could do to get her out, the timbers were so heavy and so wedged in.
People were pairing for a dance on the lawn, and Mr. Stanmore, wedged in by blocks of beauty and mountains of muslin, could neither advance nor retreat.
The paper with which he had wedgedit was a letter signed Nicholas Bulstrode, but Raffles was not likely to disturb it from its present useful position.
Ross was now wedged between two abutments he could not see and from which his best efforts could not free him.
He wedgedhis flippers into his belt, pulled on over his feet the covers of salkar-hide Torgul had provided.
In one of these tubs a baby iswedged in with rags, and in this position carried out and placed on the pavement.
He was so closely wedged in between two stalwart-looking men of the navvy type that when the King of Spain came by he, the anarchist, couldn't have got his hands up to take off his hat had he wanted to do so.
They shrieked in terror, for they thought that the next instant they would be hurled down upon the mass of human beings wedged in there, swarming like ants.
Though it disgusted him to be wedged into a small space with a lot of noisy men, he had come here in the desire to escape the wild orgy of his thoughts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wedged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
