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
More than this seems to me to verge upon impertinence.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
In the first place, attention may be called to the extreme freedom of the verse, a freedom which at times makes the composition verge upon prose.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Tinker, Chauncey Brewster
The Dundee Advertiser:"— "'Blind Tom.'—This extraordinary musical prodigy gave two performances in Dundee yesterday, and on each occasion the powers displayed by him were so marvellous as to verge upon the miraculous.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.
