verge
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Most often, when she seems on the verge of acceptance, happiness is snatched back from her — a nasty game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
A person may even warn us by crying for help or, as Cathy does, advising those on the verge of falling into her trap to turn back.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
This was when Schmitt, believing he was on the verge of a slam dunk, accused Smith of perjury.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
With just one more weekend to play, Simpson is on the verge of joining that exclusive—and wildly retro—club.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
My sister was on the verge of collapse.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
We like a very early dinner that verges on being a very late lunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Lower land costs and an expectation of a lesser or in fact no need for Buckinghamshire-style tunnels and verges would mean a much lower cost per mile of track.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
As he’s classically rendered, Soames verges on unpalatable.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
He gives a charming picture of Atalanta among the hunters which I have put into my account, but often, as in the description of the boar, he is so exaggerated, he verges on the ridiculous.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Belgium’s outrage ahead of its match against the Americans verged on disbelief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The result in Beijing verged at times towards collective paranoia.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
The energy, the motion, the kavorka forever verged on chaos.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
Sterling also missed a one-on-one in the first half and when Pochettino took off Mykhailo Mudryk moments later, the atmosphere verged on mutinous.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2024
She had maintained, too, her old way of holding her head in a manner that verged on the defiant.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
Does it mean men’s tennis is verging on another Big Three?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The re-created history, which is where many historical documentaries fail, looks good, and the scenes the writers conjure up are well done, if verging sometimes on melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Former scrum-half Matt Dawson described England's discipline as "verging on comical" after four players were shown yellow cards in the second half of their 31-24 win over Argentina.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A consistent message emerged: Los Angeles was not a beautiful, vibrant metropolis with serious problems, but a hellhole verging on being lost for good.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
“She’s off Snapchat and Insta. I’m verging on hostile, so I thought I’d call and see what you know.”
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Vocabulary lists containing verge
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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