verge on's Usage Examples:

Several "canons" in the collection verge on the character of sermons or expository texts rather than church canons.

For a large amount of the season, Town were on the verge on promotion to Division 1.

smashed his second first-class century to put Windward Islands on the verge on securing the first-innings lead against Barbados.

It lies on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh verge on Kolkata National Highway 53(old NH6) and is in a perfectly situated close.

continues today, not so much in universal biographical dictionaries, which verge on factual prosopography, but in collections of inspirational biographies.

stubbornly traditional eighty-year-old farmer — whose social attitudes verge on the prehistoric — raises hell when he is forced to move in with his sadsack.

lavas currently erupted within back-arc basins (Manus Trough, New Guinea) verge on being ultramafic.

infatuated lover melodramatic crises that verge on the surreal; like John Updike, Spencer is a poet-celebrant of Eros, lyrically.

feed on the corpses of drowned humans, making the eating of these eels verge on cannibalism.

Sisson considered to verge on sentimentality.

A coffin stone is set into the verge on the north side of the bridge for pall bearers to rest with a coffin on.

detailed violence, contain erotically or sexually charged situations which verge on becoming pornographic, and focus more on injuring or killing female as.

abstract and stylized, while the paintings of Charles Sheeler sometimes verge on a form of photorealism.

""Shooting of Colour Photo is on the verge on completion," says debutante director Sandeep Raj - Times of India".

The bus mounted the unpaved verge on the outside of the bend, crashed through roadside hedgerows and subsequently.

The few chords that accompany moments of shock verge on the cheesy.

and photographers, who take advantage of the peripheral walkways that verge on Mugdock Country Park, and offer views over the Glasgow area.

Contemporary séances, channeling and Spiritualism verge on necromancy when supposedly invoked spirits are asked to reveal future events.

Synonyms:

on-the-spot; on-site;

Antonyms:

off-site;