How to Use sedge in a Sentence

sedge

noun
  • Cut up to half the sedge's height in early spring to thin it out.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • This native western sedge is found from the coast to the desert.
    — Dennis Peck, oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Make sure your lawn type and type of sedge are listed on the label.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
  • Heaps of last summer’s grassy sedge lay withered around us.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Some sedges prefer wet soil, and others grow best in dry, sandy soil.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
  • One of the most upright, shiny and prolific weeds in lawns can be sedge.
    — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2021
  • Maintain sedges in areas of partial sun or shade.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Among common weeds, sheep sorrel and sedges are prompting their share of sneezes.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Like our garden plants, lawn weeds include grasses, sedges, and broadleaf plants.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Like our garden plants, lawn weeds include grasses, sedges, and broadleaf plants.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
  • There are over 2,000 species of sedges (Carex) and many thrive in the shade.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 4 June 2026
  • Most sedges adapt well to shade or part shade and look best when planted as an edging plant or in mass plantings.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Select from native flowers, ferns, grasses or sedges priced by the plant, pot, tray or pack.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Over at Lake Clark, the bears continue to munch on sedge and scour for clams this time of year.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • This herbicide kills many broadleaf weeds and sedges, but is not as effective against the grasses.
    — Dan Gill, nola.com, 28 Apr. 2019
  • 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
  • Most garden centers have one or more lawn herbicides that list sedge control on the label.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 May 2017
  • Some weeds may still escape control such as the sedges and need a specific herbicide.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • With sedge plants, the rhizomes create a tough mat just below ground level that resists foot traffic.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Native nectar-bearing plants, milkweeds and even grasses and sedges provide a great start.
    — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
  • This low-growing, emerald-green sedge spreads rapidly, and grows in moderately dry to moist soils.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025
  • This particular type is made of at least 50 percent swamp plants like reeds, sedges, and cattails.
    — Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 28 July 2010
  • 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
  • Weed-and-feed products do a good job of controlling many broadleaf weeds but leave most grassy- and sedge-type weeds unaffected.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Sedges and ferns are popular choices; gardeners can add a mix of perennials and shrubs.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 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
  • Cottongrass is a lovely sedge of waving white seedballs, as soft as a puppy’s belly.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 June 2019
  • Some types, like nountain sedge (Carex montana), remain fairly short—about six inches high.
    — Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 30 Apr. 2026
  • My primary recommendation would be to try one or more species of sedge (Carex).
    — Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Pennsylvania sedge does well in sun and partial shade conditions.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2025

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