edgewise

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.