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
Here we verge upon a different type of explanation of the financial crisis—one of a psychological nature.
From Modern Economic Problems Economics Volume II by Fetter, Frank Albert
Still, in a way, he is proud of the sinologue—as a public school is proud of a boy so clever as to verge upon insanity, or a village is proud of the village idiot.
From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
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
