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
His bushy hair was thickly shot with grey, and his age I should imagine to verge upon sixty.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
“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
Their range is narrow, and, what is more damning, their art seems constantly to verge upon artificiality.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
