How to Use sedge in a Sentence

sedge

noun

• In the garden, sedges look great at the border’s front.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• This native western sedge is found from the coast to the desert.
  — Dennis Peck, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
• One of the most upright, shiny and prolific weeds in lawns can be sedge.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2021
• Now, Yoshi can rock-hop around the vernal pool, leap onto the meadow and play fetch with their dog, Dara, on the Carex pansa sedge.
  — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• The larvae take two years to mature and subsist on sedges and grasses, while the adults sip nectar.
  — Andrew Warren, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• Among common weeds, sheep sorrel and sedges are prompting their share of sneezes.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Another break in the rain an hour or so later produced our best bird of the day; a sedge wren off Rea Road.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 28 Apr. 2017
• Even at a glance, the tundra inside the pen was transformed: the sedges pruned, the moss trampled, the blueberries nibbled.
  — Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2024
• This makes sense for sedges, which tend to inhabit wetlands.
  — Kenneth Setzer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2017
• Instead of slamming cell doors, concrete and steel, there’s a sedge of sandhill cranes perched in a fallow field.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2023
• Several sedges grow in local lawns and tend to be the greenest, skinniest and most upright of the weeds.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• This herbicide kills many broadleaf weeds and sedges, but is not as effective against the grasses.
  — Dan Gill, nola.com, 28 Apr. 2019
• North of Boston, a sedge wren at Plum Island was noteworthy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• This particular type is made of at least 50 percent swamp plants like reeds, sedges, and cattails.
  — Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 28 July 2010
• If the weeds are mostly broadleaf weeds, such as dollarweed, or sedges, such as nutgrass, spray the liriope with Image Kills Nutsedge.
  — Dan Gill, nola.com, 28 Apr. 2019
• Some weeds may still escape control such as the sedges and need a specific herbicide.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• But unlike grasses, which evolved under the open sky, many sedges are adapted to the forest, making them ideal for the shade garden.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2017
• As far as the eye can see, golden, flax, and copper-colored bears graze on sedge before a wall of glaciated volcanoes.
  — Acacia Johnson, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2020
• Most garden centers have one or more lawn herbicides that list sedge control on the label.
  — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2017
• The arctic refuge is a vast region of tundra: mosses, sedges and shrubs underlain by permafrost.
  — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2017
• In an observation blind at the end of one trail, Carlson pointed out nesting sandhill cranes amid the yellow-green sedges and grasses of the tidal flats.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2018
• Native nectar-bearing plants, milkweeds and even grasses and sedges provide a great start.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
• My primary recommendation would be to try one or more species of sedge (Carex).
  — Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
• Some examples: 'Tara' prairie dropseed, 'Blonde Ambition' grama grass, and white-tinged sedge.
  — Johanna Silver, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2021
• Tiger nut—not a nut but a little sedge tuber—is very sweet and very beige, with tiny particles floating throughout and a faint savor of rubber.
  — Vogue, 15 Dec. 2017
• Sedges and ferns are popular choices; gardeners can add a mix of perennials and shrubs.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2017
• On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.
  — Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
• The animals are herbivores, primarily eating grass and sedges, and can run up to 30 mph.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• Clustered field sedge, Carex praegracilis, looks like a flowing, soft grass and can even take mowing to make a great lawn alternative.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
• Cottongrass is a lovely sedge of waving white seedballs, as soft as a puppy’s belly.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024