verge upon
Example Sentences
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To say that the later portraits verge upon caricature is not much of an overstatement.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2010
Because you consistently verge upon the profound, the revealing�and then pull back, almost in embarrassment.
From Time Magazine Archive
In "Philippians" especially, many expressions seem to verge upon Docetism, the extreme form of Gnosticism, according to which the human body of Jesus was only a phantom.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by Fiske, John
His bushy hair was thickly shot with grey, and his age I should imagine to verge upon sixty.
From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
He steps from planet to planet, and if he cannot enter immensity, he can verge upon its borders.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
