HEDGE in a Sentence

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138 example sentences for HEDGE, such as:

1. The hedge takes up too much space.
2. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
3. There was a high hedge verging the yard.
4. Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
5. Buying a house will be a hedge against inflation.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEDGE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hedge
 n.  thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfields.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
2  This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
3  One of Mr. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
4  Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
5  They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
6  And when the nine dogs of Napoleon's own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
8  The first had been blown down, or the village idiot, who always tore down what had been nailed up, had done it, and was chuckling over the placard under the shade of some hedge.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
9  And she was broad; she fairly filled the path, swaying slightly as she walked, and plucking a leaf here and there from the hedge.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
10  Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  Connie emerged in the farm's little front garden, shut in by a privet hedge.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  She plunged with utter mournfulness in his track through the fern, and came to a huge holly hedge.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
14  So saying, he sprang over the hedge, and darted off with a speed which rendered it matter of exceeding difficulty for the others to keep near him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  'As I am that the men were at the window,' replied Oliver, pointing down, as he spoke, to the hedge which divided the cottage-garden from the meadow.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Buying a house is the best hedge against inflation.
2  Buying a house will be a hedge against inflation.
3  She'd made some overseas investments as a hedge against rising inflation in this country.
4  One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge.
5  To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
6  A hedge between keeps friendship green.
7  There was a high hedge verging the yard.
8  Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.
9  You can hedge against redundancy or illness with insurance.
10  The hedge takes up too much space.
11  The hay was all got in; the trees were in their dark prime; hedge and wood, full-leaved and deeply tinted, contrasted well with the sunny hue of the cleared meadows between.
12  And burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
13  We had better get under the lee of the hedge until the rain stops.
14  The stars of the biggest hedge funds are losing their shirts as analysts fear a major financial wipeout is imminent.
15  Establish which boundary hedges are yours, and which belong to a neighbour.