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 the Alcestis Euripides made one of the best plays in the world, full of true pathos, full of jovial humor, both of which sometimes verge upon the burlesque.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
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
The verge upon which they stood had once been a road also, though now narrowed and in some places blocked by the bushes which had grown across it.
From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
