verge upon
Example Sentences
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To say that the later portraits verge upon caricature is not much of an overstatement.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010
Because you consistently verge upon the profound, the revealing�and then pull back, almost in embarrassment.
From Time Magazine Archive
But perhaps there are schools among us now which verge upon the opposite extreme.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.
Even then he but vaguely understood, had not rightly guessed the verge upon which she was treading.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple)
In the first place, attention may be called to the extreme freedom of the verse, a freedom which at times makes the composition verge upon prose.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
