on the verge of
Example Sentences
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Palisades is on the verge of winning its first upper division City Section basketball championship since 1969.
From Los Angeles Times
Stop reading here if you’re on the verge of vomiting.
From Los Angeles Times
Giardina, who has written extensively about the history of coal in Appalachia and the industry’s exploitation of the region’s workers, recalled that Jackson’s visit came “on the verge of the Pittston strike,” which lasted nearly a year spanning 1989 and 1990, and stemmed from the Pittston Coal Company’s refusal to renew a contract with the United Mine Workers of America guaranteeing health care benefits for around 1,500 people, including active and disabled miners, families and widows.
From Salon
Wells and many others had been, that Christianity, and religious belief itself, lay on the verge of extinction.
But at the time of skimo's Olympic announcement, Harrop was actually on the verge of quitting the sport.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
