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Example sentences for: brink

How can you use “brink” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In a separate article, the Telegraph described the European Union as "teetering on the brink of chaos."
This has saved many islands from the brink of poverty and depopulation, although it is undoubtedly affecting the character of many of the more popular islands.
Thus, the renal medulla is constantly on the brink of dysoxia owing to high demand and low delivery of oxygen.
These failures frightened investors, whose attempts to pull their money out led to more bank failures; the desperate attempts of surviving banks to raise cash caused both a credit crunch (pushing many businesses that had seemed financially sound only months before over the brink) and plunging stock prices, bankrupting still more financial houses.
The Times lead is spurred by the latest report from the U.N. chief arms inspector to Kofi Annan concluding that Iraq is no closer now to meeting U.N. requirements for the lifting of sanctions than it was last fall, when Saddam Hussein went to the brink to prevent further arms inspections.