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
In color also he incomparably surpasses Stanfield, who is apt to verge upon mud, or be cold in his gray.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John
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
He steps from planet to planet, and if he cannot enter immensity, he can verge upon its borders.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
