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Edging in a sentence
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Edging meaning
present participle and gerund of edge
Synonyms of Edging
Using Edging
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of edge
- Useful related words include: border.
- In the example corpus, edging often appears in combinations such as: edging out, edging closer, is edging.
Context around Edging
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 11 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Edging
- In this selection, "edging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, championships, foot, inside, closer, tentatively and toward stand out and add context to how "edging" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2023 championships edging out competition and are increasing edging into the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "edging" sits close to words such as adjectives, alameda and alia, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with edging
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Edging might just take the edge off. (7 words)
My biggest “upset” is Kansas State narrowly edging out Texas in the semifinals. (13 words)
Female enrolments are increasing, edging into the 87-per-cent male dominated transport, postal and warehousing industries. (17 words)
Marcus Rashford, whose own post-World Cup hot streak captured the attention before that of Watkins, has 20 in a massive 28 fixtures in that time – also a 0.71 average but edging out Watkins at the third decimal place. (40 words)
AJ secured the victory in the 9-13 years old group, just edging out Lily Gionet, and kudos to Kaylee Filoon and Eve Sadlier whose dedication won them the Participation Award. (31 words)
An Anfield departure is edging closer for the midfielder, who has won six major trophies during his five seasons at Jurgen Klopp’s side - including the Premier League and Champions League. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
A group of Staffordshire University students have placed second in the Formula Student 2023 championships, edging out competition from all over the world.
AJ secured the victory in the 9-13 years old group, just edging out Lily Gionet, and kudos to Kaylee Filoon and Eve Sadlier whose dedication won them the Participation Award.
An Anfield departure is edging closer for the midfielder, who has won six major trophies during his five seasons at Jurgen Klopp’s side - including the Premier League and Champions League.
Caught unawares, Labuschagne prodded on the front foot, edging it but it went too fast for Zak Crawley to react at first slip.
Cleverly, he slipped in a straighter one, with the angle, dangling some width outside off, and Malan fell for it, inside-edging the cut onto his stumps.
Demonstrating his mental fortitude, Djokovic dominated the tie-break, ultimately securing the victory and edging closer to Margaret Court’s 24 Grand Slam titles record.
Each side has fought back from times of strife to leave themselves on the verge of promotion after edging out Sunderland and Middlesbrough respectively in the semi-finals.
Edging might just take the edge off.
Female enrolments are increasing, edging into the 87-per-cent male dominated transport, postal and warehousing industries.
Gold is edging tentatively higher ahead of Powell’s testimony, during which conditions could become much more volatile.
Harthill is Yorkshire's most southern village by current local authority boundaries, edging the border with Derbyshire.
He carried on batting but was out two overs later, top-edging a short ball to wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Ahmed for two, leaving Australia 2-5.
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It is believed the two buses became too close at a roundabout, with one edging toward the other’s side mirror.
Manchester United's current owners the Glazers look to be edging towards making a decision on the future of the club.
Marcus Rashford, whose own post-World Cup hot streak captured the attention before that of Watkins, has 20 in a massive 28 fixtures in that time – also a 0.71 average but edging out Watkins at the third decimal place.
Max Verstappen completed a practice double for Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix by edging out Lando Norris.
My biggest “upset” is Kansas State narrowly edging out Texas in the semifinals.
Omotade Ojora won the 110 meters high hurdles, edging out teammate Brackins with a time of 13.48 seconds.
Prodding at a ball away from his body and with the ball swinging, Khawaja failed to move his feet when edging a ball behind off Mohammed Siraj.
Common combinations with edging
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- edging out 40×
- edging closer 29×
- is edging 23×
- after edging 17×
- edging the 9×
- are edging 9×
- be edging 7×
- before edging 7×
- just edging 6×
- narrowly edging 6×