on the verge of something

Examples of verge

verge
At one extreme, where discourse verged off toward real demeanor, disgust could manifest itself demonstratively in acts of snobbery.
Marked passages also hint at a representational content that verges away from a single source or from a cohesive intention.
While the excited crowd gathered round, suddenly and unexpectedly there was a new vortex of the festival, verging on the threshold of a challenge.
Caution verging on scepticism is indeed the tone struck in all three of these volumes.
The ruler continued to enjoy, unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky, a respect which sometimes verged on worship.
Despite its radical rhetoric, which often verged on socialism, the rebellion stayed within the bounds of a capitalistic framework, the traditional formula of the day.
Although this point verges on the platitudinous, it is nonetheless an important one.
At times, the forced participation in collective violence against the willful verged on riot.
Almost by definition, these attacks tended to occur in public as opposed to private spaces, most notably pleasure gardens, parks and the verges of roads.
In many cases, however, it verges on impossibility to reach a definite conclusion.
The slightly overturned antiform verges towards the southeast.
The contents appear to be a somewhat unplanned collection of papers, in which the presentation of a few verges on the summary.
Agricultural production beyond subsistence verges on the pointless where product markets are remote and costly to reach.
His famed ' supernatural ' powers even verged on what, within the dichotomised understanding of rational-irrational, was regarded as ridiculous.
Sinistrally verging, steeply plunging folds deform many of the thrustrelated faults.
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Collocations withverge

verge

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grass verge
I talk to him, by the grass verge and the trees.
on the verge of bankruptcy
After 18 years in business he $ had some unfortunate losses and was on the vergeofbankruptcy in 1791.
on the verge of collapse
Another panelist observed that many people see globalization as a form of tyranny, and as such, may be on the vergeofcollapse.
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