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Example sentences for: cusp

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

Francis died on the cusp of a new age of molecular systems neuroscience.
Stupid as it sounds, sitting as we are on the cusp of this new millennium, women still lead sharply circumscribed lives trimmed in by mean-spirited nonsense that's meant to keep them down.
Authentic Texan Matthew McConaughey on the cusp of his hunkdom dies an agonizing newsstand death, but recent Texas transplant Sandra Bullock is huge.
Or, earnest professionals fresh from college, technology freaks on the cusp between computer games and the Internet, dedicated defenders of society and protectors of truth, middle-class guardians of all that is good and nice, power freaks and culture groupies urgently seeking out the newest trend so they can play hipper-than-thou at the next person to notice it.
It is now the cusp of the millennium.