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
Still, in a way, he is proud of the sinologue—as a public school is proud of a boy so clever as to verge upon insanity, or a village is proud of the village idiot.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
In the Alcestis Euripides made one of the best plays in the world, full of true pathos, full of jovial humor, both of which sometimes verge upon the burlesque.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
An egg should never rashly verge upon hardness- -never.
From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 5 by Meredith, George
