I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wedge of cheese (= a piece which is thin at one end and thick at the other )
▪
I bought a half pound wedge of cheese.
wedge heels
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
thin
▪
Carefully cut a thin wedge out of the cake.
▪
Core, seed, and slice apples into very thin wedges .
■ NOUN
sand
▪
To do that you must use a variety of clubs for chipping, from the sand wedge to the 5 or 4-iron.
▪
I could see Peter shaking his head in the fairway, as he propped himself up on his sand wedge .
■ VERB
cut
▪
Carefully cut a thin wedge out of the cake.
▪
To serve, cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
▪
Sprinkle with sugar. Cut into 8 wedges .
▪
Sprinkle with cheese. Cut into wedges or squares and separate slightly to have crisp edges.
▪
Serve warm, cut into wedges .
drive
▪
The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
▪
The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪
The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪
By criminalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Supreme Court has driven a criminal wedge between the dying and their doctors.
▪
They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer.
▪
The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪
Above all, it drove a wedge through the heart of the Conservative coalition.
▪
Considering the views of those proven achievers helps drive an even greater wedge between centralization and decentralization as a guiding organizational principle.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drive a wedge between sb
▪
Romley's lawsuit drove the wedge even farther between the two former friends.
▪
The war had driven a wedge between the President and his liberal supporters.
▪
Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
▪
It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
▪
She'd driven a wedge between herself and Guy.
▪
Such opposition to bureaucratic intrusion drove a wedge between many working-class people and the Fabian socialists.
▪
The deal drove a wedge between the president and fellow Republicans going into the 1992 elections.
▪
The lawsuit also helped drive a wedge between Arpaio and Romley.
▪
The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪
The papal reform tended to drive a wedge between the educated, celibate higher clergy, and the rank and file.
the thin end of the wedge
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
lemon wedges
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Carefully cut a thin wedge out of the cake.
▪
He pulled out his wedge , sailed the ball over the knoll and it rolled into the cup.
▪
Her hair was stiff and phosphorous, a dome-like wedge .
▪
Instead of driving a wedge between lovers, a child can expand and deepen that love.
▪
The men of violence want to drive a wedge between the forces of law and order and the people they protect.
▪
Ultimately such thinking becomes a psychological, relational and spiritual wedge between men and women.
▪
While sauce is cooking, in another large saute pan, saute apple wedges in butter until lightly browned.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
▪
I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in .
▪
Rusted dairy cases had been wedged in along its sides and four corners to keep it balanced.
▪
In female flowers, the flies are wedged in tightly, the thorax pollen being rubbed off on to the stigma.
▪
The second time around, Stafford was fast asleep, wedged in between two large blond businessmen.
▪
That was four hours too long for Billie wedged in behind the ferry tanks.
▪
A group of teenagers sat, wedged in behind the fixed tables and seats in the alcove.
■ NOUN
door
▪
A couple of minutes later she heard the chair that had wedged the door handle shut being moved.
▪
She wedged the door open with a stone and then, without once looking back, strode off through the woods.
▪
At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door , at the back of the queue.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the thin end of the wedge
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Groves wedged a muslin snake bag behind his belt.
▪
Magma can wedge open and penetrate cracks cutting across the layering of the surrounding rock, forming tabular intrusions called dikes.
▪
Not since Clarenceaux wedged a beer-mat between the bell and the clapper.
▪
Rusted dairy cases had been wedged in along its sides and four corners to keep it balanced.
▪
The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in.
▪
We sometimes carried in our pockets assorted stones to wedge in cracks.