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
But I confess that the talk and the quality of it, the meeting and its informality did strike me as so singularly stimulating as to verge upon the riotous.
From Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
Like other farmers, they are conservative and adhere to old rules or fancies, which in some cases verge upon superstition.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
In a sense the dragon is the type of a man, self-controlled, and with powers that verge upon the supernatural.
From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
