verge

On the verge of tears, his voice quivered and broke.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Now it seems as if one of pop’s hottest acts is on the verge of implosion.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

U.S. stock-index futures were little changed on Sunday, as it appeared the U.S. was on the verge of an all-out trade war with Canada, one of its biggest trade partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

But those objections weren’t enough, and “we all feared that the Planning Department was on the verge of possibly approving the process ministerially.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Not knowing she could refuse, Carla nodded meekly, on the verge of tears.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

We like a very early dinner that verges on being a very late lunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Standing outdoors in all weathers, he painted hundreds of scenes of lush meadows and roadside verges.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 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

Romances began and ended there; children kissed at the verges of fields or walking home through the woods.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

A questionable outlet, the company obtained the results through a methodology so shady it verged on outright dishonesty: They used a definition of “tradwife” that bears no resemblance to the term’s actual meaning.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

The energy, the motion, the kavorka forever verged on chaos.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024

Ophelia thought that Paul’s personality was built of oppositions—a need for frenzied activity that verged, she thought, on desperation, and a towering self-confidence oddly combined with a hunger for affirmation.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

These landscapes, portraits and figures, often verging on pastiche, present an academic artist rather than a painter: too much mind, not enough heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Patrick Mahomes has improved in recent weeks but losing to the Bills was a big blow, and they now have a bye week off before facing the Broncos in what is verging on a must-win.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Now Wang Lung had heard here and there that for the House of Hwang it had been a year verging upon poverty.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck