threshold

Interpreted more broadly, the phrase loses meaning: what constitutes the necessary threshold of realism?

There is one final lesson to learn before he crosses the threshold from darkness to glory.

She took her temperature on Monday and noted it was slightly elevated to 99.5, just under the threshold for worry.

That year was really the first year that I stepped over the threshold and became more of a collaborator.

Once a threshold osmolality is reached in our bodies, it triggers our brains to make us seek water.

At the same moment the door was thrown open, and Mrs. Gordon appeared on the threshold with a gentleman behind her.

In the midst of these meditations, the dungeon door opened, and Santa Cruz himself appeared on the threshold.

That last moment, as she stepped lightly over the threshold of the library, was a sort of climax to the intoxication of youth.

Pausing at the threshold before opening the door, the sonorous mumble sounding through the deal panels misled me.

She knew he had divined the one thing she had most dreaded in returning,—the crossing again the threshold of her own room.