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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:

The swing votes in Congress are turning against Clinton, pushing him to the brink of a Senate trial.
The inherent problem with Cold War brinkmanship, as the Harvard theorist Thomas C. Schelling has noted, is that it could elicit concessions only if one's opponent didn't know exactly where the brink was.
Even the most hardened aid workers refuse to operate in many regions, and some warn that Afghanistan is near the brink of chaos.
In 1983 Wuhan was flooded in spite of monumental preparations for the worst, and the great floods of 1998 (the worst in 54 years) again pushed Wuhan to the brink.
Thus, the renal medulla is constantly on the brink of dysoxia owing to high demand and low delivery of oxygen.