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
At no period of her least refulgent moment did she verge upon this type.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Dundee Advertiser:"— "'Blind Tom.'—This extraordinary musical prodigy gave two performances in Dundee yesterday, and on each occasion the powers displayed by him were so marvellous as to verge upon the miraculous.
From Music and Some Highly Musical People by Trotter, James M.
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
