verging
Example Sentences
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The re-created history, which is where many historical documentaries fail, looks good, and the scenes the writers conjure up are well done, if verging sometimes on melodrama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
A consistent message emerged: Los Angeles was not a beautiful, vibrant metropolis with serious problems, but a hellhole verging on being lost for good.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
A plant that was once romantic is now, some fear, verging on the apocalyptic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Six seasons of TV and three feature films depict servitude as a benevolent state, sometimes verging on jolly.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
He stood in front of me, towering, not even a hint of a smile, only worry and sadness and something verging on panic.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
