verge

But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.

It was a brutally hot day, 103 degrees, and the city was on the verge of a racial explosion.

Washington State is on the verge of passing new gun control legislation.

On the verge of turning 60 this December, Lennox still has a few items to cross off her bucket list.

All joking aside, what was once considered an expensive gimmick is on the verge of going mainstream.

Late into the night they lingered on the veranda, and he found himself on the verge of confessing all to her.

It was still in the verge of possibility that his son might seek his father in that dismal chamber.

A coward by nature, he had been on the verge of a nervous breakdown before the trial, thinking of what might happen.

This mine is situated in low ground near the verge of the stream, and was at first only worked for gold.

The road we followedPg 134 closely skirts the coast for a great part of the distance, running at times on the verge of the ocean.