verge upon
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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
An egg should never rashly verge upon hardness- -never.
From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 5 by George Meredith
But I confess that the talk and the quality of it, the meeting and its informality did strike me as so singularly stimulating as to verge upon the riotous.
From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
My third sentiment was the expectation of some extraordinary, glorious happiness that was impending—some happiness so strong and assured as to verge upon ecstasy.
From Youth by C. J. Hogarth
Nelson did not often verge upon the poetical in words, but to the poetry of lofty aspiration his inmost being always answered true.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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