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“Between the homes, a freeform pool curves through natural rock, hiding a grotto and a slide, with a shallow ledge for lounging and an elevated spa,” according to the listing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Massive flooding left a government building in western Nepal teetering on the edge of an unstable ledge before it fell into the Daram River.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

On the window ledge sit the manly accoutrements of shaving: a Barbasol aerosol canister and a safety razor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Borrow a few inches from the precarious ledge beside the table.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

As he did so, his boot kicked a pebble from the ledge, and it fell to the shiny black floor.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

The council has asked businesses in the town's centre to consider putting spikes and other deterrents on their building's front ledges.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

"Cracks have appeared, elements such as ledges, rubble and walls have fallen and damage has been reported in some buildings," Andalusian emergency services said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

And instead of nailing my art to the walls, I had multiple ledges installed that allow me to move pieces around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Weeds poked up from neglected garden beds and dozens of orange sandbags sat on ledges and columns, for no apparent reason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Mariam saw no smokers on the streets, no cups of tea steaming from window ledges.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Black bass are good with several ten plus pound fish happening every week found in creek beds, points, and ledged drops.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 22, 2020

Ah, dark garden, dark garden, with your olives and your wine, your medlars and mulberries and many almond trees, your steep terraces ledged high up above the sea, I am leaving you, slinking out.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"Whatever it may pretend to mean, what it is is a silly absurd toy-lamb with a Christmas-tree flag ledged on its paw—and if it wants to mean anything else, it must look different from that."

From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The mortar is taken up in a hod or hoisted in pails and deposited on ledged boards about 3 ft. square, placed on the scaffold at convenient distances apart along the line of work.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

Promenaders promenaded in and out of the corridor, and up and down the corridor, and nobody troubled to glance twice either at the heavy-lipped, solitary girl or at the ledged couples.

From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett

Each section is completely different from the others, from mushy open faces to ledging closeout barrels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Breaks best: May-September Type of wave: A surreal, ledging left that looks more like an avalanche or a tidal wave than anything you'd think was surfable.

From Time Magazine Archive

We ran 300 yards down the road to find a ledging, overhead shelf throwing onto a shallow rock bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dee Why-The critical, sucking, ledging point break anchors Sydney's northern beaches.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a small ledging or bar on this hatch to rest the tankards on.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall