bordering on

After an expensive and acrimonious primary battle among Democrats, the general election race for the seat was sleepy, bordering on dull.

The standard advice of only borrowing your projected salary out of college is getting further out of reach, bordering on completely out of touch.

The prosecutor said Kwan, a married father of one, had "a deeply disturbing" interest "bordering on obsession" with poisons and chemical toxins and "their use in killing human beings".

This time, the prime minister took us to a modest, bordering on non-descript room in the offices of the British diplomats who work at the United Nations.

The mood in the clubhouse shifted from celebratory over the victory on the field to a seriousness bordering on somber, according to several people present at the meeting.