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
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 Constance Fenimore Woolson
Even then he but vaguely understood, had not rightly guessed the verge upon which she was treading.
From Sally Bishop A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
At no period of her least refulgent moment did she verge upon this type.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
In a sense the dragon is the type of a man, self-controlled, and with powers that verge upon the supernatural.
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
