Words similar to verge

Example sentences for: verge

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

Her new book, The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What To Do About It , argues that America is on the verge of a civic tax revolt.
She hasn't, and is on the verge of losing her job.
The author, a man on the verge of divorce, describes how separation has rescued him from a loveless, oppressive marriage and supplied him with freedom.
The balance sheet gets complicated if you think, as I do, that a lot of her most noble goals (such as racial integration) would have happened anyway, and consider that a lot of her least noble ones (such as disarmament on the verge of World War II) were never achieved.
From the Amazonian rubber boom to the "Brazilian miracle" of the 1960s, the country has repeatedly seemed on the verge of an economic takeoff, only to slide back again into stagnation.