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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:

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.
And Buchanan is "on the cusp of becoming radioactive politically," says Mark Shields ( NewsHour ).
Francis died on the cusp of a new age of molecular systems neuroscience.
“Ecology now is like quantum mechanics in the 1930s—we're on the cusp of some major rearrangements and syntheses.
Democrats explained the loss by asserting that 1) the NRA distorted the stricter measure, claiming it would lead to confiscation and a national gun registry; and 2) House Republicans are aware of their constituents' support for gun control but are unwilling to defy the NRA on the cusp of an election year.