How to Use brink in a Sentence

brink

noun

• But what’s clear is that his past inspired him every day to try to lift others from the brink.
  — Trisha Thadani, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2021
• The pleading tears of her 19-year-old sister helped pull her back from the brink.
  — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021
• Travis Scott built his reputation on a live show that teeters on the brink of chaos.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2021
• So Hurley, 48, has brought a program to this brink before.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• The whole region is on the brink of ecological collapse.
  — Maia Wikler, Vogue, 11 Nov. 2021
• Te reo Māori, the Māori language, is fighting back from the brink of extinction.
  — Stacey Morrison, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2021
• Employees experienced change fatigue and were at the brink of not being able to cope with even the smallest changes.
  — Pat Calhoun, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Stewart, who portrays Bailey on the brink of suicide, had just come out of battle before the movie was produced.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• Others on the brink of closure have been resurrected or saved by younger generations.
  — Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
• Indianapolis over the weekend set a new criminal homicide record and is once again on the brink of passing its total homicide record set last year.
  — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2021
• This fall, however, the Herald Examiner building came back from the brink.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• Suddenly facing the brink of elimination, Mason attempted to push the ball downfield, but failed to get many cracks at the goal.
  — Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2021
• Flick through some of the country's most beautiful destinations, plan a hike in the Caucasus mountains and learn how the historic wine industry came back from the brink.
  — CNN, 15 Nov. 2021
• Advocates in Detroit have even taken a door-to-door outreach approach in an effort to reach Detroiters on the brink of eviction who may not know about ways to get help.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2021
• Mattress sellers, flooring manufacturers and makers of clean energy equipment are warning that stretched supply chains and runaway freight bills have pushed them to the brink of ruin.
  — Allison McNeely, Bloomberg.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• Even on the brink of 80, the pagan child was alive and well.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That’s code for stop driving people who are on the brink.
  — Dede Henley, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Many more companies are teetering on the financial brink.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
• Profligate spending and overly bullish fund-raising projections put the campaign on the financial brink after only two months.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024