How to Use hedge in a Sentence

hedge

1 of 3 noun
  • Not all shrubs work well as hedges.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Trim hedges and pull weeds from beds and cracks.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
  • It’s been a busy week for Kalshi hedges.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
  • The utter lack of a hedge on this bet.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Trim overgrown shrubs and hedges.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
  • But Young has a hedge for that, too, with this trade.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Then, his father pulled a milk crate up to a hedge.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Use hedge trimmers to make quick work of spring clean-up.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Water lilies, lime trees, hedges.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Use it as a hedge plant or add it to a mixed shrub border.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Dec. 2025
  • One cut with the hedge trimmers, and your grass is pruned.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There was a hedge each side of us, and a crowd of us walking.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • On inflation there was no such hedge.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • But not all hedges are created equal.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Rose of Sharon also makes a good hedge but has a more open canopy.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At the front of the house is a small patio concealed by a tall hedge.
    — Sandra Barrera, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But for the hedge-fund mogul, every penny counts.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Sagittarius hedges bets and plays against the house.
    — Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Do make sure future pruning keeps the hedge wider at the base than the top.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
  • Camellias can be grown as a hedge or pruned into shrub form or a small tree.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 7 June 2023
  • Our ligustrum hedge has grown about six feet tall but lacks foliage at the base.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
  • And the goal was to kick the ball once across a marker, such as a hedge or a field line.
    — Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • Camellias can be grown as a hedge or pruned into shrub form or a small tree.
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Space plants three feet apart for massing in borders and beds or to plant a low hedge.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Set plants three feet apart to create a dense hedge or farther apart for a loose screen.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • It can be sheared into a formal hedge or shaped into a ball.
    — Daniel Scott, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 June 2026
  • Now on his own, Dunk aspires to become a hedge knight too.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Plant it as a focal point in the landscape or as a stunning hedge.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 17 May 2026
  • Plant as a hedge or to provide contrast in mixed borders.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
  • Often the hedge is full enough with healthy limbs to grow shoots that fill voids left from trimming.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2026

hedge

2 of 3 verb
  • She hedged when she was asked to support the campaign.
  • The garden is hedged by flowering shrubs.
  • He hedged his earlier comments about the need for new management.
  • That alone helps hedge it from any fight over card rates.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Still, let’s hedge with Bucs plus points.
    — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Drop hedging words like just or maybe.
    — Joyce Marter, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, teams begin to hedge.
    — Slavik Zorin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • But just to be on the safe side, don’t hedge your bets when voting.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • O’Brien didn’t hedge on where things are headed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Banks and hedge funds keep track of when those restrictions lift.
    — Gillian Tan, Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Google is hedging its bets on quantum.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • This creates great chances to hedge pregame bets and find value.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Even Seattle hedged its bets on Darnold.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Don't plant your roses right next to your boxwood hedge or any woody shrub.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 May 2026
  • Chahal, for his part, isn’t hedging.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • At the same time, Delta appears to be hedging its bets.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Many airlines around the world hedge the cost of buying jet fuel.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 26 June 2026
  • Most of them hedge, purchasing a contract to lock in a price.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Friendly nations hedge their bets.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The idea is to hedge your bets, since some of those areas will come out ahead, but not all of them will.
    — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Bennett wouldn’t hedge a guess as to which seed the Gaels will receive.
    — Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Here’s a way to think about calculating the right amount of spreads to hedge.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This gives customers a chance to find value and hedge pre-game wagers.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Still, both parties appear to be hedging their bets.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 11 Nov. 2025
  • That’s not Gilligan hedging his bets.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • On that point, the weather service is hedging its bet as to when that trend will start.
    — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
  • Just last Friday alone, three of them spoke out, hedging hard on what’s to come.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Both banks were careful to hedge, not issuing perma‑bull calls.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 June 2026
  • For those who don’t want to sell, there are strategies to use to hedge against a future decline.
    — WSJ, 21 May 2022
  • They can be used to hedge a portfolio or speculate that prices will drop.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022

hedge

3 of 3 adjective
  • Gold is winning the macro-hedge argument.
    — Isabelle Lee, Bloomberg, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The meteoric rise comes amid an ongoing bear market that has left most hedge funds in a bad spot.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 6 July 2022
  • The Goliaths are mostly hedge funds who are shorting those stocks — in other words, big-shot investors placing bets that those shares will crash.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Hedge funders are supposed to be yodeling Tarzans, not fragile consumptives in a Verdi opera.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2017
  • Traditional venture firms have been raising new funds quickly, while hedge funds and private-equity investors have moved into the market.
    — Eliot Brown, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Hedge fund guys said robot trading systems will make better investing decisions faster, improving returns.
    — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Many wind farm operators, which needed to purchase electricity because of hedge contracts, are in financial distress.
    — Russell Gold, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Essentially, a coordinated group of retail traders grew upset at how hedge funds make money by betting that struggling companies' stocks will decline in value.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 2 June 2021
  • Goldman Sachs analysts recently said that mutual and hedge funds are conservatively positioned.
    — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2022
  • There isn’t the appetite for public offerings due to fewer dedicated energy mutual and hedge funds and commodity price uncertainties due to lower demand.
    — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Once only a curiosity with strong appeal to libertarians and technologists, bitcoin's supporters now include hedge fund managers, titans of industry and a former Treasury secretary.
    — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 7 June 2017
  • Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital, which invests billions in hedge funds for wealthy individual clients, has created special-purpose vehicles dedicated to investments in private companies.
    — Juliet Chung, WSJ, 19 May 2021

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