sedgy
Example Sentences
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It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
The country close around, with the exception of two low hills, was flat and sedgy, broken by marshes and shallow rivulets.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
By the sedgy brink, where the wild herds drink, close couches the grim old chief; The trembling sycamore above whispers with every leaf.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
It is most abundant in grassy and sedgy meadows and in open bogs, though it is found rarely in swamps and tree-covered bogs.
From Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 by Dice, L. R.
This they are enabled to do, wherever there are extensive commons of unpastured lands, or where there are streams or ponds, lakes or marshes with shoal sedgy banks.
