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Example sentences for: brink

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I believed to the very core of my soul that the human race was on the brink of a new era in which intolerance and bigotry and prejudice would no longer exist.
The swing votes in Congress are turning against Clinton, pushing him to the brink of a Senate trial.
That is, when the personal really is political, not merely a feminist catchcry, and when new technologies and competition are driving the media to deliver unparalleled, all-news-all-the-time access to the lives of those in power, we should not be too surprised to see a US President on the brink of losing his job for having an affair."
Most critics applaud Hughes for breaking his 35-year silence about his marriage and admitting his insensitivity and infidelity, which some claim drove Plath over the brink.
In its news section "cover story," USAT says the arson deaths of the three brothers have given both Catholics and Protestants pause and appear to have brought Northern Ireland "back to sanity, back from the brink."