How to Use verge in a Sentence

verge

1 of 2 noun

• Melissa Gorga is on the verge of having the first of her kids leave the nest.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2023
• One who is on the verge of joining a short group in the history books.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2023
• Albini, no stranger to bands on the verge, had one piece of advice.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2022
• The Trojans haven’t won a title in 39 years, but third-year boss Gottlieb has brought this new culture to the verge of greatness.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
• That would move to the verge of threatening players with the loss of service time and delayed free agency.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• The Eagles were on the verge of taking control of the game, having just passed midfield, when Hurts simply dropped the ball on a third-and-5 run.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• Creed Humphrey might be on the verge of making Super Bowl history.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
• Emails show that Strive was on the verge of inking its first contract with a state pension system—the name of which was not mentioned—last fall.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
• Their performances in this gonzo sci-fi fest verge on camp, as does the movie's Grand Guignol sense of violence.
  — Katie Rife, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
• But while the aesthetic verges on timeless, interiors can often feel stuck in the era when the home was built.
  — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2023
• On fire, an ambulance rolls to a halt on a soft verge; the last Trojan child totters in wooden clogs through cobbled streets...
  — Simon Armitage, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
• Barnwell was stoic standing in a grassy verge a ways from the outlet mall, which was cordoned off by police cars.
  — Maggie Prosser, Jamie Landers, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2023
• Barnwell was stoic standing in a grassy verge away from the outlet mall, which was cordoned off by police cars.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
• Despite alarm bells, economists say China is likely not on the verge of collapse, but this could be a turning point.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2023
• Since the big trade, the Mavs have sunk from fourth in the West to the verge of missing the playoffs altogether, a feat almost unimaginable these days with the benefit of a play-in feature.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Apr. 2023
• The game appeared destined to go into overtime after the third period was on the verge of being scoreless but White was able to break the tie and give her team a lead once again.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2023
• The latest celeb couple on the verge—allegedly—is Jennifer Hudson and Common.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 27 Feb. 2023
• Its textile industry, accounting for around 60% of its exports, has come on a verge of closure.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 16 Jan. 2023
• On the verge of his 30th birthday, Jonathan feels his time is running out to create something revolutionary.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
• Federal help for needy families could be the verge of expiring But a new program and funding are needed.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2023
• The operatic canon represents a long lineage of women pushed well beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Gears of War game is set on a planet on the brink of societal collapse when a monstrous threat in the form of underground creatures known as the Locust take humanity to the verge of extinction.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2023
• The game is set on a planet on the brink of societal collapse when a monstrous threat from below in the form of underground creatures known as the Locust takes humanity to the verge of extinction.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Nov. 2022
• No, the controversial social media network isn’t on the verge of imminent collapse.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
• But Charter is now on the verge of settling the lawsuit for less than $262 million, an amount that will apparently be fully covered by the company's insurers.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
• After four years in this thankless role, Shelley’s on the verge of leaving when early member Tony Gallo returns from a long sabbatical and catches her eye.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• There will be mirrors, and doubling, and tears, because hiring Julianne Moore to play a woman on the verge and not having this extraordinary screen crier turn on the waterworks is practically akin to a war crime.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
• Suddenly Kinch’s move was being cited as further evidence that the three-star restaurant experience was on the verge of extinction.
  — Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2023
• The oppressive Western heat wave brought California to the verge of ordering rolling blackouts but the state's electrical grid managed to handle record-breaking demand.
  — CBS News, 7 Sep. 2022
• Here’s the scoop: Fort Lauderdale is on the verge of requiring higher seawalls in keeping with a county mandate aimed at fortifying cities in Broward that are vulnerable to sea level rise and tidal flooding.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2023

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verge

2 of 2 verb

• In other words, something that verges on the comedic, rather than the chic.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2023
• The steering is light, the cabin is quiet at highway cruise, and the ride verges on plush.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 18 June 2023
• Yet the stories that emerge from these wars can verge on their own sort of mythmaking.
  — Gregg Carlstrom, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2024
• More than a few of the objects verge on grotesque and maybe ugly and will push at the limits of your taste, which is always healthy.
  — New York Times, 13 June 2021
• Like Ebb Tide, the flower color can verge on black velvet.
  — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• The disdain is all gone, and in its place is a kind of honoring that verges on reverence.
  — Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• But, the devotion of the Australian soccer fan can verge on absurd.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• As is often the case, Musk's plans were fanciful, verging on the outlandish.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023
• To my confusion verging on panic, there are no results in the app.
  — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2023
• The hardest part of starting a conversation with a stranger is finding an excuse to talk to them that didn’t verge on the creepy.
  — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 12 Jan. 2023
• The two actors have an earthy chemistry, and at moments the film seems to be verging on a gender-revisionist take on the genre.
  — Vulture, 14 Sep. 2023
• In recent seasons, the over-the-top looks seen on the show, which can verge on the impractical, have become memes on social media.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• The button takes substantial effort to press, and pressing it means pushing them into your ears, which can verge on painful.
  — Christian De Looper, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
• But the story line has been verging on saminess, as the kids keep making plays for power and Dad keeps dominating them.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• But the backlash against change can sometimes verge on absurdity.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021
• Smut even suggests Maas' titles verge on erotica, which is also a genre with immense worth and full of great writers.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2024
• At times the project of cataloging, or indeed defining, the threads of centuries of free thinking can verge on overly ambitious.
  — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• His talent for false friendship verged on the sociopathic.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• And then there are mountain peaks and other places that verge on inaccessible to humans.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2021
• In Japan and Britain, so much of the coastline is reinforced with concrete and rocks that natural beaches now verge on extinction.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2022
• The drawings verge on abstraction, yet are clearly derived from nature.
  — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
• And whatever verges on corn is redeemed by well-played, if quickly drawn, characters who make good company and are easy to invest in.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• The 23-year-old with curly black hair is thoughtful and detail-oriented, given to long answers that verge on philosophical.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• Unrest is a term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt.
  — Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Their muted hues keep the look from verging into maximalist turf.
  — Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 15 Mar. 2023
• But the maître d’ politely refuses me entry in an English that seems to verge on another language.
  — Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
• Later on, the Moon conjoins expansive Jupiter to give us a double dose of optimistic luck -- that said, this could verge on overconfidence.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Now Youssef is developing his own food philosophy that seems to verge on alchemy.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
• Cold temperatures slow the processes of life down — animals in cold places seem to live longer as a result — and temperatures in the deep ocean verge on freezing.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2018
• So yeah, like VanMoof, Cowboy e-bikes are high-tech proprietary computers-on-wheels with a feature set that can, at times, verge on gimmickry.
  — Thomas Ricker, The Verge, 21 July 2023

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