brink on

Example Sentences

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Invasive mule deer are pushing native plants to the brink on Catalina Island.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2023

And then consider that Tuscarora took the Bulldogs to the brink on Friday in a 14-13 scare Stone Bridge pulled out on the back of its defense.

From Washington Post • Oct. 23, 2017

Analysts point out that the government has neared the brink on reaching crucial financial agreements in the past without marketwide collapse.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2011

From the brink on which we stood an enormous ladder, of the rudest possible construction, led to the bottom of the hole.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

His path was the open, snow-sheeted channel of a little river, with the fir woods crowding down to its brink on either side.

From Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir