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 moorland has disappeared, with its sedgy pools, instead of which there is an abundance of rivulets, growing more limpid and more headlong as you proceed; for you are ascending steadily, your horizon enlarging.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
And now the road wanders sweetly between the green and pleasant levels beside the sedgy Kennet.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Its favourite summer resorts in England are lakes which are lined with rushes, boggy places on the moors, and sedgy rivers.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
If the winding Wayverne had overflowed its sedgy banks and flooded all Midlandshire, the young surgeon could have been scarcely more surprised than he was by the contents of his friend's letter.
From The Doctor's Wife by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
