edgewise

Definitions

Examples

• This was halfway through a meandering phone conversation—me in my apartment in New York, he at his home in Maine—in which I spent most of the time trying to get a word in edgewise.

• When there’s a big group of workers in a video meeting gathered in person, for example, it can be tough for remote employees to get “a word in edgewise,” Brown says.

• Instead, Coulter gouged a string of fellow conservatives, leaving Hannity struggling to get a word in edgewise.

• It would be just like having Gingrich as VP—except that, with Sorrentino, every now and again Mitt might get a word in edgewise.

• I want to hear that man sass you over the phone, if he can get in a word edgewise, and you on the other end of the line.

• Three flat stones were set up edgewise, and the spider set on them.

• Set the board on edge on the horizon plane and turn it edgewise toward the sun so that a shadow of the pin is cast on the plane.

• The approach to the pavilion from the lower level of the garden was by a carefully graded slope of Roman brick, set edgewise.

• Zoséphine looked up to his face from the little foot that edgewise was writing nothings in the dust.