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
If our conversation on the enthralling subjects of fertilizers and aphides seemed in its earnest absorption to verge upon the emotional and tender he interfered at once.
From My Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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
A single grand passion has always a strong hold upon the imagination and the sympathies, but two passions contending for the mastery verge upon something quite the reverse of heroic.
From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere
