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 banks of the Kephissus, too, are lined with great reeds, and sedgy marsh plants, which stoop over into its sandy shallows and wave idly in the current of its stream.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Sadly waved the blades of tall sedgy grass over the quicksands; here and there grew a few stunted fir-trees, or barren shrubs.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
A plover was faintly calling from the sedgy shore on the other side.
From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland
Probably I’ll give the whole bunch of yellow-legs away, anyhow—Mother doesn’t like their sedgy flavor.
From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook
