edgewise

How To Use edgewise In A Sentence

• I agree," jumps in Elisabeth Hasselbeck the show's token right-wing blonde who, has been looking for an opportunity to get a word in edgewise and who, like Sherri, is still operating on the mistaken believe they are conducting an actual interview. Stephen Colbert walks out on 'The View'
• Here begins the manzanita, adjusting its tortuous stiff stems to the sharp waste of boulders, its pale olive leaves twisting edgewise to the sleek, ruddy, chestnut stems; begins also the meadowsweet, burnished laurel, and the million unregarded trumpets of the coral - red pentstemon. The Land of Little Rain
• Just lift your hand upward edgewise, turn it slowly, then push it down flatwise, slowly. Destination Brain
• When you look up into the heavens with a telescope, you see many nebulae whelloch are like, or approximately like, the perfectly balanced spiral nebula whelloch you see edgewise in Fig. 23.
• I could not get a word in edgewise
• The woman who at first so impressed you now seems like a bore who won't let anyone else get a word in edgewise.
• To be bored to tears, fighting sleep, regarding his conversation as blah, blah, blah, and feeling you cannot get a word in edgewise are pretty unambiguous signs of, let us say, incompatibility.
• The clamor rose to such a level, that no one could get a word in edgewise.
• March 2nd, 2010 at 4: 55 pm maybe a little respect for the other readers who might want to get a word in edgewise mught be in order for you. Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum
• And yet it is full of couch potatoes rolling doobie after doobie and overly felicitous teeth-grinding cokeheads trying frantically to get a word in edgewise.