How to Use brink in a Sentence

brink

noun

• Even on the brink of 80, the pagan child was alive and well.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• With No Time to Die, Bond is now on the brink of a new era.
  — Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 15 Sep. 2021
• There was the Heat’s 35-point win that pushed them to the brink of a series win.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2022
• And Chavez, whom Trevante finds, is on the brink of death.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
• For the first four frames, the Red Sox pushed Cole to the brink, yet Cole survived.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
• But the war in Ukraine pushed Sri Lanka closer to the brink.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
• The Sox were on the brink of being swept and going 4-5 on this road trip.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• The car was only 50 yards from the brink of the American Falls.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2021
• Once again, this time in the ninth inning, the Tigers were on the brink of destruction.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
• This is what a city on the brink of running out of water looks like.
  — René Marsh, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• Piers’ return pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• The pleading tears of her 19-year-old sister helped pull her back from the brink.
  — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021
• One is the metabolic disease that had brought Colton to the brink of death.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• But Janine is at the brink of landing on what her style is.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Mar. 2022
• Now, down 3-2, the Bucks are on the brink of elimination.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2021
• The deal appeared to be on the brink of falling through as late as Monday.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 July 2021
• That’s code for stop driving people who are on the brink.
  — Dede Henley, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• Aliyu has lost nine colleagues and said he was even pushed to the brink himself.
  — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
• All of which has led Austin and the Roadrunners to the brink of history.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• Tens of millions of people in Africa are on the brink of severe hunger and famine.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
• But he is brought back from the brink by hammering on the door of his apartment.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
• Buford and her husband set about bringing the bar back from the brink.
  — Curbed, 9 Dec. 2022
• His three-week hunger strike has brought him to what his doctors say from afar could be the brink of death.
  — Kenneth Roth, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• And that led to being bypassed for callups despite pushing to the brink of the big leagues in 2019.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
• This Steven Spielberg flick is set in 2045, where the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2022
• The south region has since come back from the brink, with more than 20% of its ICU beds now available.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Eleven years later, Musk may be on the brink of eating his words.
  — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• Now, Warsaw’s mayor is warning the city is on the brink.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• Many more companies are teetering on the financial brink.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
• Back in Washington, congressional aides and White House officials have continued huddling in private all week, hoping to pull the country back from the fiscal brink.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 12 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Mar 2025