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How to use verge in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Verge means a rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. Example: “I was on the verge of tears.”

Examples of verge by meaning

nounThe grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an...

  • The shoulders are graded and the verges cleared well back to lessen the chances of hitting stray stock.2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 129
  • On the other side of the car, another armed officer was seen attending to the passenger, who was lying on a grassy verge.2026 June 29, Kate Connolly, “Six adults killed in shooting at youth welfare facility in Stade, Germany”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

nounAn extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.

  • I was on the verge of tears.

verbTo be or come very close; to border; to approach.

  • Eating blowfish verges on insanity.

More sentences with verge

  • She was a frequent blinker, always on the verge of tears.From the entry blinker
  • Her ideas seem to verge on the edge of brilliance and madness.From the entry verge on
  • Common green corridors include railway embankments, river banks and roadside grass verges.From the entry green corridor
  • His actions verge on insanity, making everyone nervous.From the entry verge on
  • He was finally on the verge of success.From the entry on the verge of
  • Every time I thought he was on the verge of telling us, he decided to say something else instead.From the entry on the verge of
  • The auctioneer said he had no animus against Travellers but that some headstones verged on “monstrous”.2024 March 3, Rory Carroll, “‘A clash of cultures’: Irish opinion split over Travellers’ elaborate headstones”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry traveller
  • Evening newscasts speak of a country on the verge of balkanization.2007 September 18, Simon Romero, “A Radical Gives Bolivia Some Stability”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2021. From the entry newscast
  • Here she was, in mid-seduction, and the seductee was on the verge of snoring.2005, Heather MacAllister, chapter 9, in Never Say Never, Harlequin, page 166. From the entry seductee
  • The yardgrass (Eleusine indica) has similarly spread along roadside verges in western Africa and other tropical regions.1991, David Moresby Moore, Plant Life, page 34. From the entry yardgrass
  • The heart strings may be taut, even on the verge of snapping.1981, Millie Stamm, Be Still and Know, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry selah
  • You know, to find that healthy, elusive balance between “responsibly engaged” and “on the verge of a primal scream.”2022 February 14, Starshine Roshell, “Santa Barbara School Teacher’s Rant Is All Wrong”, in Santa Barbara Independent. From the entry covidy
  • His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, page 38. From the entry near
  • A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke.December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from…. From the entry roundly
  • And, that is exactly what we see, both in the fictional world on the verge of collapse, and in our own.2021 December 28, Priya Shukla, “How This Climate Scientist Felt After Watching ‘Don’t Look Up’”, in Forbes. From the entry doomerism
  • His persuasive power was overwielded, and overshadowed by his intensity, which made him seem to them on the verge of spooky.2016, T. Wells, Wild Man. From the entry overwield
  • In fact, I was on the verge of Iktsuarpok.”2015, Dixie Lyle, Marked Fur Murder: A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mystery, →ISBN, page 231. From the entry iktsuarpok
  • We filmed our wild wood spurge, Euphorbia amygdaloides, on a big grassy verge alongside the road by the River Mole.2013 February 28, Carol Klein, Wild Flowers: Nature's own to garden grown, Random House, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry wood spurge
  • I smiled and then looked away, feeling a bit awkward and on the verge of a full-out sobfest.2011, Thomas M. Hill, Warrior's Song, Lampas Books, →ISBN, page 228. From the entry sobfest
  • This impressive mammal seemed on the verge of extinction, a victim of enlightenment and manners and corporate groupspeak.2008 April 25, George Vecsey, “Where Wild Things Are, Again”, in New York Times. From the entry groupspeak
  • Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it.2006, Dylan Trigg, The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason, page 191. From the entry urban exploration
  • He was on the verge of running away to escape Merlin's stonyheartedness when the wizard took him by the shoulder.2000, Deepak Chopra, The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want., →ISBN, page 117. From the entry stonyheartedness
  • He had shoulder length brown hair, a speech defect and a chinful of pimples on the verge of bursting.1993, Dermot Bolger, The Picador book of Irish contemporary fiction, page 321. From the entry chinful
  • While structuralists verge on re-writing the records, Anglists sometimes retreat behind the texts into a determined profession of linguistic agnosticism.1990, American Notes Queries, page 46. From the entry Anglist
  • And there she was, outlined in the twilight, a rare glimpse of a large mammalian female on the verge of extinction.1981 December 23, [Jill Tweedie], “All I ask, Mary, is when you visit, throw me a cream bun, OK: Letters from a fainthearted feminist”, in…. From the entry Tyrannosaurus regina
  • The answer is that cities are run by politicians most of whom are morons or on the verge of moronicity.1955, Morris Allison Bealle, American Capsule News, Issue 1; Issue 150. From the entry moronicity
  • In fact on two estates, the council had communalized front gardens, turning them into open-plan grass verges because private gardens were so neglected.2021, Anne Power, Property Before People. From the entry communalize
  • Everyone started laughing and, just like that, we all went from being on the verge of a boregasm to off the nut!2017 January 10, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN…. From the entry boregasm
  • I'm on the verge of crying.2008, Hayashi Naotaka, “Prologue”, in Chaos;Head. From the entry boring
  • My friends and I were standing on the grass verge of the town’s main road, tossing loose balls of fresh-mown grass at passing cars.2008 August 20, Charlie Sorrel, “Concept Box Squeezes Mower Clippings into Toys, Furniture”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast…. From the entry windshield-wiper
  • A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 7. From the entry canna
  • Or is his unflagging sesquipedalianism—which at times verges on hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism (adj. pertaining to a very, very long word)—achieved without benefit of accessory?1992 February 10, David English, “Words to Live By”, in New York, volume 25, number 6, New York, NY: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry hippopotomonstrosesquipedalianism
  • The constant threat of the stockade or a section eight (undesireable discharge for being gay) drove me to the verge of insanity.1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 13. From the entry section 8
  • Lubricated and fueled by Elf, the nationalized purveyor of French motion lotion, the RE30B is on the verge of becoming perhaps unbeatable.1983, Car and Driver, volume 28, page 106. From the entry motion lotion
  • The path led straight across the clearing into another forest, lying upon the verge of which I saw a bit of white.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.…. From the entry stand out
  • You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry foray

Meaning of verge

  1. noun A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
  2. noun The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
  3. noun An edge or border.

Full definition of verge

Questions about verge in a sentence

How do you use verge in a sentence?
Verge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I was on the verge of tears.”
What is a short sentence with verge?
“Eating blowfish verges on insanity.”
What does verge mean?
Verge means a rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.

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