How to Use verge in a Sentence
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Saint, on the verge of tears, covers his mouth with his hands.
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Sean Gregory,
Time,
26 May 2026
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The worst team in baseball is on the verge of sweeping them.
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Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
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Maria Semple loves a woman on the verge.
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CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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One who is on the verge of joining a short group in the history books.
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Julian McWilliams,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 Apr. 2023
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And for 15 years the project was on the verge of collapsing.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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Albini, no stranger to bands on the verge, had one piece of advice.
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Spin Staff,
SPIN,
31 Dec. 2022
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Those frustrations could be on the verge of boiling over.
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Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
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Later on in the night, Rocky spots a man on the verge of being bounced from the room.
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Jeff Ihaza,
VIBE.com,
2 June 2026
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The Supreme Court is on the verge of wrapping up this session.
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CBS News,
28 June 2026
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Just as in Venezuela, Cuba now stands on the verge of selling it.
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Carlos Manuel Alvarez,
Time,
24 Apr. 2026
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That’s why the Lakers are on the verge of seeing their season end.
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Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 May 2026
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The economy is on the verge of what feels like constant collapse.
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Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
2 June 2026
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Melissa Gorga is on the verge of having the first of her kids leave the nest.
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Joelle Goldstein,
Peoplemag,
11 Feb. 2023
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The Padres are on the verge of historic new ownership.
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Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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Here's a word of warning to all wives whose husbands are on the verge of retirement.
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Marni Jameson,
Arkansas Online,
22 May 2026
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Two balls, two strikes and the Vibe on the verge of snatching back some momentum.
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Latif Love
june 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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On the verge of another bad loss, the Cubs fought back in the bottom of the ninth.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
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The Magic are on the verge of adding their name to the list of teams to accomplish the feat.
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David Troy,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Now the Kings are on the verge of being knocked out of the playoffs in the first round for the fifth year in a row.
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Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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This came as the most recent ceasefire agreement was on the verge of expiring.
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Emily Chang,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Now, some of those skills are on the verge of disappearing entirely.
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Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
9 June 2026
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But, in the larger sense, history was on the verge of concluding.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Scott Brown’s car hit a road sign planted on the grass verge, flipped and rapidly caught fire after landing.
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Alex Kalinauckas,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
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Jane is a struggling novelist on the verge of getting her life back together.
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Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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And Orion the dog left people in tears after he was saved from the verge of euthanasia.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Nov. 2025
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Everything teeters on the verge of going bad, and weekend plans often get in the way of cooking through them.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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Barnwell was stoic standing in a grassy verge away from the outlet mall, which was cordoned off by police cars.
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Maggie Prosser,
Dallas News,
7 May 2023
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Barnwell was stoic standing in a grassy verge a ways from the outlet mall, which was cordoned off by police cars.
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Maggie Prosser, Jamie Landers,
Anchorage Daily News,
7 May 2023
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Again, from the verge of the sack to being described in this way by the man many consider to be the best football coach in the world.
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Beren Cross,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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Cheap Trick appeared on the verge of superstardom.
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Marc Ballon,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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In other words, something that verges on the comedic, rather than the chic.
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Georgia Day,
Vogue,
16 Oct. 2023
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Auburn with 10 points, verging on 17.
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Seth Emerson,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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Yet the stories that emerge from these wars can verge on their own sort of mythmaking.
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Gregg Carlstrom,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Mar. 2024
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The steering is light, the cabin is quiet at highway cruise, and the ride verges on plush.
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Arthur St. Antoine,
Car and Driver,
18 June 2023
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The disdain is all gone, and in its place is a kind of honoring that verges on reverence.
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Daphne Merkin,
The New Republic,
11 Aug. 2023
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To my confusion verging on panic, there are no results in the app.
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Anusha Praturu,
Vulture,
15 Dec. 2023
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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.
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New York Times,
13 June 2021
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The banking system verged on total collapse.
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John P. Murphy,
ARTnews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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But the backlash against change can sometimes verge on absurdity.
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Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2021
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The twists verge on too cruel, the siblings too close, and for some people watching, the story will just be too much.
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David Opie,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 2026
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And so that's verging on a lot of other weird things that people are uncomfortable with.
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Eve Chen,
USA Today,
8 Aug. 2025
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But, the devotion of the Australian soccer fan can verge on absurd.
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Naaman Zhou,
The New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2022
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As is often the case, Musk's plans were fanciful, verging on the outlandish.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
Ars Technica,
2 Aug. 2023
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But there are times when this behavior verges on trollish attention-seeking.
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Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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Their muted hues keep the look from verging into maximalist turf.
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Anna Fixsen,
ELLE Decor,
15 Mar. 2023
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And then there are mountain peaks and other places that verge on inaccessible to humans.
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Michelle Theriault Boots,
Anchorage Daily News,
24 Aug. 2021
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The drawings verge on abstraction, yet are clearly derived from nature.
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Washington Post,
11 Feb. 2022
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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.
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Martin Fritz Huber,
Outside Online,
12 Jan. 2023
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The movie may be simple on its surface, but its conclusions verge on devastating.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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The button takes substantial effort to press, and pressing it means pushing them into your ears, which can verge on painful.
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Christian De Looper,
BGR,
8 Nov. 2021
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Truckloads of junk food, or supermarket produce verging on spoilage.
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Shane Mitchell,
Saveur,
6 Dec. 2023
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Unrest is a term for a condition of angry discontent and protest verging on revolt.
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Adrian Vore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2023
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Others were already verging on national fame.
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Andrew Durbin,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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The two actors have an earthy chemistry, and at moments the film seems to be verging on a gender-revisionist take on the genre.
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Vulture,
14 Sep. 2023
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Shades that are distinctly different give more visual interest in a room and won't verge on clashing or too matchy-matchy.
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Melissa Epifano,
The Spruce,
22 Feb. 2026
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Now Youssef is developing his own food philosophy that seems to verge on alchemy.
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Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes,
3 Nov. 2021
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When the work was complete, his appreciation verged on the mystical.
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Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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Smut even suggests Maas' titles verge on erotica, which is also a genre with immense worth and full of great writers.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
1 Feb. 2024
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In recent seasons, the over-the-top looks seen on the show, which can verge on the impractical, have become memes on social media.
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Brande Victorian,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Aug. 2023
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At times the project of cataloging, or indeed defining, the threads of centuries of free thinking can verge on overly ambitious.
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Lauren Jackson,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2023
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