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• He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.From the entry manhood
• She was a vigorous youth poised on the brink of womanhood.From the entry womanhood
• The old building seemed to be on the brink of collapse.From the entry on the brink of
• He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery.From the entry pettifoggery
• He teetered on the brink of the precipice.From the entry teeter
• It put the U.S. on the brink of clinching a spot in the quarterfinals.2023 August 31, Seattle Times. From the entry clinch
• If red is too bright for you, opt for this brink pink tone.2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute, archived from the original…. From the entry brink pink
• Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104. From the entry entomologist
• To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower.1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!. From the entry nasturtium
• Christmas Eve, impatiently expected, was peeping over the brink of the hour.1906 December, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Compliments of the Season”, in Ainslee’s […], volume XVIII, number 5, New…. From the entry saturnalian
• Germany is a nation on the brink.2025 May 7, Mark Sappenfield, “Merz wins in vote that reveals the challenges ahead for Germany”, in The Christian Science Monitor. From the entry unwittingly
• Trussell worried that the little community his grandparents helped build was on the brink of drying up and blowing away.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry dry up and blow away
• Rafael Nadal will be wearing a brink pink colour jacket and the same colour shoes at the tournament.2020 January 14, Aryan Sharma, “Outfit Revealed For Rafael Nadal For Australian Open 2020”, in Essentially Sports. From the entry brink pink
• Bobbery's on the brink, ain't he, mate?2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area…. From the entry 'ope
• Fly-fishing is on the brink of becoming to ex-hipsters what golf has been to the World War Two-ers.1992 April, David James Duncan, The Brothers K, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-24003-1; republished New York, N.Y.: Dial Press…. From the entry outdoorsy
• The Earth could be on the brink of a death-dealing calamity — and belching cows are partly to blame.1988 January 12, Weekly World News, volume 9, number 14, page 36. From the entry cowtastrophe
• Last month the $7-billion women's garment industry was nervously poised on the brink of another fall buying season.1971, Forbes - Volume 108, page 18. From the entry kneesie
• Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-GRYF—the horror place of the folklore of her race.1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan the Terrible, A. C. McClurg. From the entry folklore
• A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.1904, Thomas Pinkerton, Sun beetles: a comedy in nickname land, page 170. From the entry salonical
• We tottered together upon the brink of the fall.1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House. From the entry baritsu
• The end of the self-proclaimed ‘progressive coalition’ that took Germany to the brink of economic ruin was more than overdue,” Weidel wrote on X.2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”…. From the entry self-proclaimed
• The wildcat and mouse-eared bat are on the brink, but deer are spreading and otters bouncing back, according to a comprehensive analysis.2018 June 13, Damian Carrington, The Guardian. From the entry mouse-eared bat
• Shouting at the top of his lungs and swearing like a cutter, Chip raged at the voices which were shoving him to the brink.2017, Stanley Campbell, The Legend of Chip: The Legend Begins. From the entry swear like a cutter
• The youngest members of America’s vast Baby Boom were in college; the oldest were on the brink of their peak earning power.2012 February 27, Megan McArdle, “Europe’s Real Crisis”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2012. From the entry demographic dividend
• With the members of their race slowly dying out and no new mutants being born, mutantkind was on the brink of extinction.2011, Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, X-Men: Second Coming, Marvel Entertainment, →ISBN. From the entry mutantkind
• The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States.1982, Economist, volume 285. From the entry jaw-jaw
• It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence.2020 October 13, Peter Bradshaw, “Soul review – Pixar's rapturous tale of a jazz nut on a surreal out-of-body journey”, in The Guardian. From the entry head-spinning
• The vaquita marina, known as the "panda of the sea" for the distinctive markings circling its eyes, has been pushed to the brink of extinction by illegal gillnet fishing.2017 November 6, The Telegraph. From the entry vaquita marina
• Privacy walls separated the flanking properties, but no fence defined the end of the lawn, where a woodlet rose at the brink of a shallow ravine.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner: A Novel of Suspense, New York, NY: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry woodlet
• Frustration among miners like Li over unpaid wages has swelled to the brink of unrest in Heilongjiang province in China’s far northeast, also known as Manchuria.2016 March 18, Gerry Shih, “Anger in China’s coal country as miners feel left behind”, in AP News, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022. From the entry Shuangyashan
• He has led Scots first to an SNP majority at Holyrood, now to the brink of a historic break with the rest of the UK ("rUK"?).2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian. From the entry rUK
• A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.1937, Henry Kuttner, The Salem Horror. From the entry pseudopod
• Near the margin of the city where the glittering water reaches long fingers in between the wharves, a crowd of people push, antwise, down to the brink.1918, William Beebe, Jungle Peace. From the entry antwise
• Its waters have been despoiled and plundered to the brink of disaster – and in the case of the Grand Banks cod fishery, sent over that edge into deathly extinction.2010 October 8, Kevin Rushby, “Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The…. From the entry pond

Meaning of brink

1. noun The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
2. noun The edge or border.

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Questions about brink in a sentence

How do you use brink in a sentence?

Brink is used as a noun. For example: “He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.”

What is a short sentence with brink?

“the brink of success”

What does brink mean?

Brink means the edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.