How to Use sedge in a Sentence
sedge
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In the garden, sedges look great at the border’s front.
—Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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This native western sedge is found from the coast to the desert.
—Dennis Peck, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
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One of the most upright, shiny and prolific weeds in lawns can be sedge.
—Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2021
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Now, Yoshi can rock-hop around the vernal pool, leap onto the meadow and play fetch with their dog, Dara, on the Carex pansa sedge.
—Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
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The larvae take two years to mature and subsist on sedges and grasses, while the adults sip nectar.
—Andrew Warren, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
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Among common weeds, sheep sorrel and sedges are prompting their share of sneezes.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2017
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Another break in the rain an hour or so later produced our best bird of the day; a sedge wren off Rea Road.
—Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 28 Apr. 2017
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Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
—Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
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This makes sense for sedges, which tend to inhabit wetlands.
—Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
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Instead of slamming cell doors, concrete and steel, there’s a sedge of sandhill cranes perched in a fallow field.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
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Several sedges grow in local lawns and tend to be the greenest, skinniest and most upright of the weeds.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2018
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This herbicide kills many broadleaf weeds and sedges, but is not as effective against the grasses.
—Dan Gill, nola.com, 28 Apr. 2019
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The blades of a weeping brown sedge are delicate, copper-colored wisps.
—Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
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North of Boston, a sedge wren at Plum Island was noteworthy.
—BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
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This particular type is made of at least 50 percent swamp plants like reeds, sedges, and cattails.
—Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 28 July 2010
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If the weeds are mostly broadleaf weeds, such as dollarweed, or sedges, such as nutgrass, spray the liriope with Image Kills Nutsedge.
—Dan Gill, nola.com, 28 Apr. 2019
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Some weeds may still escape control such as the sedges and need a specific herbicide.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2018
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But unlike grasses, which evolved under the open sky, many sedges are adapted to the forest, making them ideal for the shade garden.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2017
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As far as the eye can see, golden, flax, and copper-colored bears graze on sedge before a wall of glaciated volcanoes.
—Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
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Most garden centers have one or more lawn herbicides that list sedge control on the label.
—Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2017
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The arctic refuge is a vast region of tundra: mosses, sedges and shrubs underlain by permafrost.
—Henry Fountain, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
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In an observation blind at the end of one trail, Carlson pointed out nesting sandhill cranes amid the yellow-green sedges and grasses of the tidal flats.
—Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2018
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Native nectar-bearing plants, milkweeds and even grasses and sedges provide a great start.
—Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
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My primary recommendation would be to try one or more species of sedge (Carex).
—Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
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Some examples: 'Tara' prairie dropseed, 'Blonde Ambition' grama grass, and white-tinged sedge.
—Johanna Silver, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2021
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Tiger nut—not a nut but a little sedge tuber—is very sweet and very beige, with tiny particles floating throughout and a faint savor of rubber.
—Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
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Sedges and ferns are popular choices; gardeners can add a mix of perennials and shrubs.
—Alex Hutchinson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2017
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.
—Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
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The animals are herbivores, primarily eating grass and sedges, and can run up to 30 mph.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
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Last August, Patel pointed my attention toward a depression worn into the moss, a path that disappeared into a yellowed tuft of sedge.
—Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
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