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
• 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
• 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
• All of which has led Austin and the Roadrunners to the brink of history.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Eleven years later, Musk may be on the brink of eating his words.
  — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
• But that experience is on the brink of some big changes and, the Joots fear, not for the better.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
• The Santa Clauses, the title of the Disney+ series, will now see Scott on the brink of his 65th birthday.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 July 2022
• Climate change is a leading force pushing winged wildlife to the brink.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• In the short-term, the latest growth figures are likely to ease concerns that the U.S. is on the brink of a recession.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Record-breaking heat across Texas has pushed its fragile power grid to the brink.
  — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 22 July 2022
• People who took out loans from Celsius are on the brink of losing their homes.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 26 June 2022
• Tucker’s team has won three of its last four to get to the brink of the program’s 14th postseason berth in the past 16 seasons.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2022
• The idea behind it stemmed from the 2021 winter storm, which left millions of Texans in the dark for days and brought the grid to a brink of collapse.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• Melville wrote the book in 1857, on the brink of the Civil War, when the everyman made use of a loose, unchecked system of currency.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Waiting any longer would move the U.S. closer to the brink of a global health catastrophe.
  — Carlos Del Rio, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
• The friction between the neighbors has brought the NATO allies to the brink of war three times in the last half-century.
  — Andrew Wilks, ajc, 6 Sep. 2022
• Each new hot pool may be an island on the brink of a transformation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Not to mention a European Union poised on the brink of a recession.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• How about take the Eagles to the brink of their second Super Bowl championship?
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 2 Feb. 2023
• Midnights is on the brink of earning Taylor Swift a rare U.K. chart double.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2022
• Dykes was asked what Leach would say about TCU’s run to the brink of immortality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• Pakistan's rupee plunged to a record low against the dollar in late July, pushing it to the brink of default.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022
• But there’s one concern that stands out: the likelihood that the GOP will drag the country to the brink of a debt default, and perhaps even push us over the edge.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2023
• With only a single member, Honoka Oba, for the past two years, the sumo club is on the brink of collapse.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 18 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024