How to Use brink in a Sentence

brink

noun
  • This past year swiftly pushed things to the brink of collapse.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
  • This is what a city on the brink of running out of water looks like.
    — René Marsh, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Leaks caused by frozen pipes have pushed the water supply to the brink.
    — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Aliyu has lost nine colleagues and said he was even pushed to the brink himself.
    — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • Eleven years later, Musk may be on the brink of eating his words.
    — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • Buford and her husband set about bringing the bar back from the brink.
    — Curbed, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The mayoral campaign itself seemed on the brink of racial schism.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • But he is brought back from the brink by hammering on the door of his apartment.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Dec. 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 of the most powerful telescopes in the world is on the brink of collapse.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • There was the Heat’s 35-point win that pushed them to the brink of a series win.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 12 May 2022
  • The deal appeared to be on the brink of falling through as late as Monday.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 July 2021
  • One is the metabolic disease that had brought Colton to the brink of death.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • On the more intense body-days, ours were taken to the absolute brink.
    — Charlie Sheen, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Tens of millions of people in Africa are on the brink of severe hunger and famine.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 June 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
  • Since then, the company’s shares have surged to the brink of a record in Copenhagen.
    — Christian Wienberg, Bloomberg.com, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Once again, this time in the ninth inning, the Tigers were on the brink of destruction.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The pandemic brought many of us to similar brinks.
    — Eric Olson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • On the brink of defeat, the Cavs set up what seemed to be an inbound lob pass for James.
    — cleveland, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The Timberwolves’ season, again, faces a brink.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • 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
  • For the first four frames, the Red Sox pushed Cole to the brink, yet Cole survived.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2021
  • All of which has led Austin and the Roadrunners to the brink of history.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The car was only 50 yards from the brink of the American Falls.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • The United Nations warned in June that the world is on the brink of its worst food crisis in 50 years.
    — Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2020
  • 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

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