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Example sentences for: verges

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His monotone verges on the point of exploding into hundreds of hysterical semitones.
Trump's penchant for purple prose and self-promotion verges on self-parody.
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.)
In places, his indictment of certain aspects of the Mexican character is so harsh--he accuses his fellow countrymen of pathological passivity and a love of lying--that it verges on masochism.
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."