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
A single grand passion has always a strong hold upon the imagination and the sympathies, but two passions contending for the mastery verge upon something quite the reverse of heroic.
From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere
“Yes,” Inna could but confess it was—very guardedly, though, lest they might verge upon gossip again.
From The Heiress of Wyvern Court by Searchfield, Emilie
The verge upon which they stood had once been a road also, though now narrowed and in some places blocked by the bushes which had grown across it.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
