How to Use verge on/upon in a Sentence

verge on/upon

phrasal verb

• Like Ebb Tide, the flower color can verge on black velvet.
  — Benjamin Whitacre, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
• Friends who verge on weeping openly over what’s happened to it.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 June 2024
• But, the devotion of the Australian soccer fan can verge on absurd.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• As Kline freely admits, works like these verge on agitprop.
  — Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• For some parents, the thought of boarding a long-haul flight to Hawaii with kids might verge on nightmare territory.
  — Parents, 13 May 2024
• Some of the potatoes verge on foamy from being suspended in their gloopy atmosphere for so long, but c’est la vie!
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 25 Apr. 2024
• As the set wore on, both sides found themselves on the verge on set points, but the other team continuously battled back.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2021
• 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
• Wooden paneling and furniture are present in every room, but not once does the decor verge on gauche.
  — Lydia Mansel, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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 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
• To really lean into this cozy look, dial up the temperature even more with shades that verge on peach or terra-cotta.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2022
• 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
• There are sequels; there are spinoffs; there are live-action retellings; there are brand extensions that verge on the mystifyingly abstract.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• 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
• The group’s seizure of Russian military sites sowed chaos, appearing to verge on open war with military authorities.
  — Miriam Berger and Adam Taylor, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2023
• The bottom of the leg is designed with pre-bent knees for unrestricted pedaling, while the slim cut through the thigh delivers a flattering silhouette that doesn’t verge on tight or compressive.
  — Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023
• Honesty is non-negotiable for Humberstone, whose songs verge on the deeply personal and often self-critical.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• The motivation behind their crime is so complex and unlikely as to verge on nonsensical.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Alongside such wishful uninhibitedness are scenes that verge on parody, as when Sam and another boy enjoy a lobster-and-champagne lunch on the beach, and the boy hands over a copy of Thomas Mann’s stories.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• Having a child might be a blessing or a difficulty within the tropes of a domestic drama, but the actual mechanics of bringing that child into the world verge on body horror, the genre perhaps best typified by the films of David Cronenberg.
  — Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2023
• What’s more, conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that biopics and documentaries that involve family members too directly can verge on hagiography.
  — Kate Dwyer, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024