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
An egg should never rashly verge upon hardness- -never.
From Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 5 by Meredith, George
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
You see," he went on, "I've written a good deal of autobiographical matter and it would verge upon self-advertisement to do more.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
