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Example sentences for: verges

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Trump's penchant for purple prose and self-promotion verges on self-parody.
The comic books, Faison says, "drip with so much political venom that they capture the labored nature of the campaign [against Hongzhi] in a way that verges on parody."
Peppered with wordplay, startling visual imagery, and near misses by the two lovers, the film has only one flaw, according to critics, namely that all the fancy footwork verges on becoming too self-conscious.
The depiction of Chinese life is said to be so grim that it "verges on the xenophobic" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the Red Corner site.)
His monotone verges on the point of exploding into hundreds of hysterical semitones.