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Sentence Examples Brink makes extensive use of native terminology to explain the essence of Mande aesthetics. I took a seat on the brink of the pond and ran my hand along the warm water. Former Evening Press scribe and York City fanatic Robert Beaumont has been pushed to the brink by the team's recent results. Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown. Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling. We passed hurriedly on, knowing that we stood near the brink of something dark and strange. At last he implored Edgar to guide him to the brink of a cliff so that he could throw himself off. And, as swankpot Ford, Geoffrey Lesley gives a controlled, sleuthing performance that simmers on the brink of volcanic-like eruption. Time and again, the club have been supposedly on the brink of selling off their antiquated ground. Affectionately named after their town, this home-grown talent are on the brink of releasing their debut album. Now he stands on the eve of his most testing hour and on the brink of fame such as few have ever enjoyed. Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin. It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left. Night was nearly there, only a thin ribbon of crimson haze touched the brink of the hillocks. On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration. When her side was tottering on the brink of defeat it was her powers of persuasion which lifted them that one vital step. It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction. You find yourself at the brink of an important change that brings emotional chaos and confusion today. Or, say the liberals, we waste our money on video games and trashy novels while the fine arts totter on the brink of extinction. He talks in a soft Glasgow accent that sometimes seems to be teetering on the brink of a mid-Atlantic twang. Show More Sentences We are sharply watching their disturbing moves, which have pushed the situation to the brink of war. But the current tidal wave of red ink has some carriers on the brink of destruction. She stood on the brink of a waterfall, the icy cold river rushed about her waist. There was a tremor in her voice that made him think she hovered on the brink of tears. As the nation's overburdened and underfunded emergency rooms are pushed to the brink, our medical safety net is starting to unravel. What holds most women back from the brink of full-on orthorexia is the fear of becoming obsessive and losing all their friends. The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror. Is this the marriage that is blessed or the marriage that is on the brink of destruction? Their high energy and simplicity make them easy to absorb and enjoy, but also bring them to the brink of monotony. I am now finding myself on a deserted beach on the brink of a saline washout. His latest opus is an apocalyptic scenario, featuring the world on the brink of death and destruction. Okay, I was on the brink of suffocating, and here they were fighting over who was going to give me mouth-to-mouth. The couple broke up and the stress of life as a single mother pushed her to the brink of a nervous breakdown. A third party is thought to be on the brink of buying the cash-strapped business and providing a secure future for both children and most staff. In Kenya, meanwhile, the bongo antelopes, victims of deforestation and poaching, are teetering on the brink of extinction. Africa's mountain bongo antelopes are teetering on the brink of extinction because of deforestation and poaching. I think we are on the brink of a housing explosion that will strengthen the strong current upswing in property interest in the city. The brink of disaster can be a mighty potent stimulant for forcing a company to save itself. Postal workers were on the brink of strike ballots or even unofficial walkouts as Socialist Worker went to press. It is this sort of hard-nosed pragmatism that has taken Edinburgh to the brink of history. Show More Sentences Tourist attractions and companies in the north west are bouncing back from the brink of bankruptcy a year after the foot and mouth epidemic. It erred on the side of soapiness, but generally pulled itself back from the brink with effective and affecting medical dramas. Most of the teaching aids displayed are in or on the brink of obsolescence. Standing on the edge of cliffs that drop suddenly, it's easy to imagine that this is the world's brink. Was Heisenberg on the brink of handing over nuclear energy secrets to the Third Reich? On the south side, almost at the edge of the cliff, stood a stone circle until it was tipped piecemeal over the brink by sportive youths. Sweet peas, busy Lizzies, pansies and marigolds are bringing vivid colours to a location which is on the brink of massive investment. They hover on the brink of existence in a flat-pack limbo until I can find my adjustable spanner. She gave up acting for a year at the very point when she was on the brink of bigger things, in the wake of Almost Famous. He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business. The viewer is faced with the aftermath of an unspecified disaster, and a countryside filled with wandering loners on the brink of oollapse. Slattery eventually hauled himself back from the brink with the help of a clinical psychiatrist and medicinal drugs for his mind. Participants need to brink something to eat and drink a helmet, sturdy pair of boots and all bikes must have brakes. Despite the enormous accumulation of wealth by the wealthiest, the economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. In 1984 his bones were painstakingly excavated to reveal a species on the brink of becoming human. But nothing is more stressful than the time limit options, and you will find yourself on the brink of rage-quitting from the stress. Fur seals, elephant seals, and the great whales were all hunted to the brink of extinction. The process repeated itself again and again, driving the siblings to the brink of insanity. A happy combination of luck and enterprise has put a South Lakeland village on the brink of prosperity for the foreseeable future. With a combination of willpower and unending generosity, fans managed to haul the club back from the brink. Show More Sentences On the brink of his third successive drivers' title and his fifth in total, he is in a win-win situation. Williamson, fearful he would be sent off, withdrew him after an early booking left him playing on the brink of a red card. Any airlines, anywhere, whose finances are within taxiing distance of the brink could simply collapse. Kate Sheedy is a very pretty, intelligent and articulate girl teetering on the brink of womanhood. He was disarrayed, confused, lost, and on the brink of an utter mental breakdown. Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink. As the world teeters on the brink of their destruction it might ponder another way. There could be an outcome where the country goes up to the brink, yet doesn't cross over, even though it can. The country came to the brink of disaster before the protesters backed down. Market stalls full of food in a nation where food shortages have left millions of people on the brink of starvation. The Amur leopard recovery program began in 2001, when the species was on the brink of total extinction. What is an astronaut feeling as he's sitting on the rocket launch pad strapped into his pod at the brink of takeoff? The relationship counselling service has been rescued from the brink of closure in west and north Wiltshire. Helen was right on the brink, as close as one could possibly get to succeeding. We'd like to post more excerpts, but with the international political situation so delicate right now, it could tip us over the brink. In Miami, restoration of the buildings was what rescued the district from the brink of dereliction. Liquor emerged as a central issue that pushed household economies to the brink. In South Africa, where an antelope called the bluebuck went extinct 200 years ago, three other big mammals have been brought back from the brink. She was aware that she was on the brink, dangerously close to being rude to this respected Elder. Here is an amazingly prolific young songwriter who is teetering on the brink of worldwide recognition. Show More Sentences It was those very values of deference, place and the proper order of things which brought this country to the brink of collapse after the war. By the time the guards run in, minutes later, the occupants are all either dead or on the brink of death. Indeed, to judge by the level of public awareness, you'd scarcely know we were on the brink of an energy crisis. If London truly was a city on the brink, then his killing might have ruptured the trust that holds things together. Over centuries they were hunted to the brink of extinction in the big game safaris of southern Africa. The paradigmatic narrative of leaving suburbia while on the brink of adulthood can be mapped across generational difference. But his brush with death was all too real, bringing him closer to the brink than he'd ever imagined. The fur and feather trade has caused some species to become extinct and pushed others to the brink. Jimmy Carter's presidency was in trouble and the whole world seemed to be close to the brink. This is despite England's brave attempt to bring the Aussies to the brink of defeat. Set in 1953 at Wellesley College, the film follows Stiles and her classmates on the brink of the feminist revolution. Weighing over 250 lb, he was on the brink of madness following years of self-abuse. You teeter on the brink of more serious madness, perhaps as a result of frequent exposure to morbid imagery and bizarre literature. British cinema was on the brink of crisis and as the 1950s progressed, audiences decreased. We find ourselves in the interesting situation of a state being on the brink of invading another state. It was obvious in 1929 that Germany was on the brink of a financial crisis. But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly. As the country teeters on the brink, here, at last, is a time for frankness. The United States is on the brink of a crisis in health care, particularly for hospitals. The extraordinary gifts that had brought him thus far could, under the impact of frustration, lead him over the brink. Show More Sentences His idea for a bagless vacuum cleaner took the inventor to the brink of ruin. Elderly residents in a Maldon street have been driven to the brink of despair by yobs who they say have subjected them to a campaign of terror. The young brave soon found he was on the brink of a cliff hanging high over a wide river. They will screech and shriek in ecstasy, as they fly from the brink of the cliff, down to the sea and rocks below. It is owing to this want of continence that everything is on the brink of ruin in our country. I go through my life with this dread that the repetitive normality and contentedness is always on the brink of ending due to some disaster. Experts are warning that Africa is on the brink of its worst plague of the insects for nearly 20 years. Trying to patch together a tour teetering on the brink of disaster is what he should be concerning himself with. I was on the brink of tears for no reason other than the moment's inherent, inexplicable beauty. Music and the science of sound and acoustics stand on the brink of huge change. Last month consultants appeared to be on the brink of industrial action over the lack of a new national deal. The second goal came on the brink of halftime, after Casillas punched a ball right back at the feet of Charles Aranguiz. Andre Brink was the first Afrikaner writer to be banned by the government after he released the novel A Dry White Season. The handheld camera grinds with touristic abandon as Brink schlepps around the world with Monette and his various partners. One out later, Higgins' check swing dropped in front of left fielder Bodie Dowding to plate Brink. Within months Musharraf had started a war with India in Kashmir and was taking the country to the brink of Armageddon. Emergent procedures provide their benefit right away and have the awesome potential to rescue a patient from the brink of death. North Korea says the situation is deteriorating and nearing the brink of nuclear conflict, with the US and South Korea exercising war games in the area. Set on the brink of nihilism, with acid rock replacing the old martial melodies, the vision was not upward into sun and clouds, but downward into mud and agony. Or when there was no way the Republicans were going to push us to the brink in summer 2011 and hurt our credit rating? Show More Sentences Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday. For children on the brink of severe malnutrition, diarrhea can be the trigger that pushes them over the edge. We do not have to look far for the proof that growth-centered economics is pushing the regenerative capacities of the planet's ecosystems to the brink. Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction. Olmert left office when he was, according to his own public statement, on the brink of forging a peace accord. The liquidation of foreign assets brought the largest Austrian commercial bank, to the brink of insolvency, forcing the Austrian government to freeze all its remaining assets. That nation is on the brink of economic Armageddon and so might we be. Unsurprisingly, sequoia believes we are at the brink of a serious recession. And in just 10 years, hunters in Asia have killed hundreds of thousands of saiga, an Asian antelope, pushing the species to the brink of extinction. Colombia's peace process was on the brink of collapse yesterday, a day after President Andres Pastrana rejected an 11 th-hour rebel proposal for salvaging the talks. Village shops continued to close while others teetered on the brink although community-owned shops, Internet retailing and home delivery schemes were becoming more popular. Albanian guerrillas with backing from Kosovo began operating in Macedonia earlier this year, bringing the majority Orthodox Slav country to the brink of civil war. The disappearance of one flight and shooting down of another has pushed the inefficient carrier to the brink of collapse. And like Vietnam, it has helped bring us to the brink of insolvency as well. Even with higher capital requirements, a few megabanks will inevitably get to the brink of insolvency. Chaz had instilled a will in him to live before and brought him back from the brink numerous times. Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, is once again trying to pull Europe back from the brink. Ndibe infuses his work with traditional African values, sayings and beliefs that brilliantly parallel the baseness of a corrupt modern state on the brink of ruin. It is one of those awful ironies which can drive to the brink of madness those who are ravenous for Hollywood success to the exclusion of all else. With Kristina on the brink of death in the hospital, Adam decides to watch the video himself. Show More Sentences Without government funds to rebuild all the devastation, Serbians are constantly reminded of what they underwent on the brink of the new millennium. Market slides, lethargic job growth, and a credit downgrade show an economy on the brink. This is, of course, because the council stopped giving a toss at some point in the 1980s, and the place has teetered on the brink of closure ever since. The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself. The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster. It's a piece that totters constantly on the brink of self-parody, but Webley attacks it with such savage gusto that it ends up being an album stand-out. At the brink of power, this birdbrain is feeling bolts of mortal terror. Douglas, often a rather stolid actor, possessed the savvy to come near the brink of self-parody without falling over the edge. Washington is in panic mode and your mutual fund is teetering on the brink. You pick up hints of Benny Hill and Frankie Howard, with the unashamed innuendo that takes you to the brink of vulgarity but never drops over the edge. I know a woman who has, several times, been driven to the brink of paralytic rage by the way her books have been received. Hill farming is on the brink of a rapid and unmanaged collapse without help through the major changes it faces, according to new research by the National Trust. In the meantime, several distinctly unprosperous regions have reached the brink of total malarial collapse, virtually ruled by swarms of buzzing, flying syringes. Then, at the brink of what might have been the end of the story for all of us, the Yahwist introduces a note of hope. The vacuum created by their departure was filled by the club's most committed supporters, who set about raising money and bringing the club back from the brink. It didn't feel like she was on the brink of a cliff about to fall off. That doesn't mean the region is on the brink of another financial crisis. I fear that the world is on the brink of a chronic shortage. The wood and hermit thrushes and their cousin the veery have taken a severe hit from the cowbirds, so that they are on the brink of becoming endangered species. The lack of natural checks and balances from top predators and browsers has led to some species teetering on the brink of extinction, while others spread like plagues. Show More Sentences He's my real-life boyfriend, so we have the emotional connectedness required to convince a cabstand full of strangers that we were a married couple on the brink. Durability is every bit up for grabs when an old memory is reactivated as when a new one is first on the brink of being formed. John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end. He produced some storming performances for the club's youth and academy teams, but when he was on the brink of a senior career he was struck down by a string of injuries. But the suckerfish and the coho salmon are teetering on the brink of extinction and both are afforded protection under the Endangered Species Act. It's the story of Max, a chronic daydreamer on the brink of adolescence whose crumbing homelife and bully problems are averted by his vivid visits from his imaginary friends. The surfer is alone on the brink of a six-story wall of water. In the nineteenth century, hunters eradicated the passenger pigeon, drove the American bison to the brink of extinction, and eliminated elk from much of the central Rockies. Keeping her head penitently bowed, Allie murmured silent good byes to all she could remember in the heat, while tears dared to brink her dark lashes. While the exact composition of the cabinet will be determined by factional dealings now underway, it is clear that it will govern over a country on the brink of collapse. The speculative bubble was at the brink of a dangerous implosion. But in the preceding century, England was frequently an afterthought on the world stage, an island kingdom tinkering on the brink of inconsequence. Unmoved we stared at a load of cold, geometrical abstractions, pooh-poohed the idea of living in such a gallery and, on the brink of calling it a day, stoically suffered on. The activity observed in 1994 occurred largely at the site of the 1998 eruption and may have indicated precursory volcanic activity at a site on the brink of an eruption. It's physically and mentally exhausting, it's thankless, it's long days and late hours and you really have to be on the brink of insanity to enjoy it. The global appetite for bluefin tuna has destroyed the species, pushing it to the brink of extinction. During the war, more than 650,000 Italian soldiers and as many civilians died and the kingdom went to the brink of bankruptcy. Her memory was also revived during the Napoleonic Wars, when the nation again found itself on the brink of invasion. The Kemp's ridley sea turtles were on the brink of extinction in the 1960s with low numbers of 200 nesting individuals. The Belgian Revolution at home and the Java War in the Dutch East Indies brought the Netherlands to the brink of bankruptcy. Show More Sentences Did he see me as a harmless old buffer in a gorblimey hat, tottering on the brink of certifiable senility? The Italian pushed himself to the brink of glory when he went dormie six up in the afternoon. Britain and France were on the brink of war when she left for Paris, and many advised her not to go. We are paying to push our endemic species like the red tail black cockatoo and numbat closer to the brink of extinction. With Iceland's Grimsvotn spewing volcanic ash into the troposphere, Europe is on the brink of another potential holidaying disaster. Although it teeters on the brink of soppiness at the end, it is precisely the kind of children's novel I wish were written more often. It could have been different, however, if his Welsh opponent had not miscued disastrously when on the brink of a 10-8 lead. Understated to the brink of plain boring, when I think back to this quite wedgy and slabby two-door saloon. If it's this efficient it makes you wonder whether we are on the brink of unleashing mind control. Accused of rudeness and incompetence, he was also credited with ruining Soviet agriculture and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war. Most hunted whales are now threatened, with some great whale populations exploited to the brink of extinction. Called, aptly, Sergio, the film teeters on the brink of hagiography. The silty mudstones and mudstones have flat beddings which reflects the oxidate brink meare lake environment. This credit freeze brought the global financial system to the brink of collapse. Therese of the Child Jesus Mission is on the brink of a cholera outbreak, said director and Salesian Father Vicente Grupeli. The refineries are located in Dumai on the brink of the Rupat rifer, east of the Dumai city. In 892, when southern England was united under Alfred the Great, Kent was on the brink of disaster. But things were once a lot closer to the brink than most people knew. She reveals how a nervous breakdown led her to the brink of suicide and tells how she was treated with electroconvulsive therapy. Meanwhile, their Missouri hometown appears to be on the brink of chaos. Show More Sentences She was sexually and verbally abused, leading her to the brink of suicide. In the 13th and 14th century, pirates threatened the Hanseatic routes and nearly brought sea trade to the brink of extinction. The northern white rhino has been on the brink of extinction for years due to hunting and habitat loss. When anarchy seems to beckon, Libya pulls back from the brink. Ennerdale Water and Crummock Water are in view and careful steps toward the brink can also add Bleaberry Tarn to the picture. The summit is marked by a cairn standing on the brink of the northern face. In 1418, with France on the brink of surrendering to the forces of Henry V, the Dauphin, Charles VII, called on his Scottish allies for help. The formerly vast Mali Empire teeters on the brink of collapse, under pressure from the rising Songhai Empire. Money, however, was no substitute for food in a city that was on the brink of famine. He was capable of using lawyerly rhetoric, at times, to the brink of pettifoggery. Przewalski's horse had reached the brink of extinction but was reintroduced successfully back into the wild. Saved from the brink of death, Julian of Norwich dedicated her life to solitary prayer and the contemplation of the visions she had received. In 1939 on the brink of the Second World War, the League relocated its headquarters from Paris to Geneva to take advantage of Swiss neutrality. By dawn on 8 June, the panzers were close to Rouen and IX Corps on the Bresle was on the brink of being cut off. By continuing to ignore these warnings, social care remains in crisis and councils and the NHS continue to be pushed to the financial brink. The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States. By early September, William was on the brink of cancelling the entire expedition when French policy played into his hand. And, unlike recent Welsh musicians, Rees' rise to the brink of success has been toughed out and cultivated on the local circuit over the last six years. In the 1960s and 1970s, sovereignty claims by Argentina over Picton, Lennox and Nueva Islands in Tierra del Fuego led the two countries in December 1978 to the brink of war. Many stories have featured seniors who are on the brink of being forced out of their homes because they didn't understand the provisions of their reverse mortgage. Show More Sentences The Japanese sent frequent embassies to China in this period, although they halted these trips in 894 when the Tang seemed on the brink of collapse. While many banks are obviously at the brink, consumers and businesses would be facing a much harder time getting credit right now even if the financial system were rock solid. But before long we realized that snapping turtles at the Pinery were teetering on the brink of disaster, and the project quickly turned into a hands-on conservation job. By 1989, the Soviet alliance system was on the brink of collapse, and, deprived of Soviet military support, the communist leaders of the Warsaw Pact states were losing power. After all, what has the Roman ever done for Chelsea, apart from rescuing them from the brink of bankruptcy, pumping in a squillion snarlers, and winning the Premiership twice? It also brought both countries to the brink of economic disaster. Protracted action at Verdun throughout 1916, combined with the bloodletting at the Somme, brought the exhausted French army to the brink of collapse. Cromwell was on the brink of evacuating his army by sea from Dunbar. The South Americans will have to overcome a battling Nigeria side, now on the brink of qualification after a surprising win over Bosnia at Arena Pantanal. Today the TPO channels are again poised on the brink of change. Coming out of the fateless, leading into the fateless, with hardly anything assigned to chance, the peasant's path runs on the very brink of destiny and on the brink of sleep. Naples, like Los Angeles and Mexico City, has always existed in a state of postmodernity, a stratified agglomerate on the brink of natural catastrophe. Tensions in Kargil brought the two countries at the brink of war. While the number of voiceprints is increasing each day for both implementations, Sestek is on the brink of new projects with leading corporations. This led to conflict between the major Dutch cities and the new Stadtholder, William II of Orange, bringing the Republic to the brink of civil war. A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink. Examples from Classical Literature Ten Brink calls attention to the possibility of the influence upon Chaucer's couplet of the Italian hendecasyllabic verse. When Brink hung up, Fitzgerald had a look of zestful anticipation on his face. The nene still has its outfall here, and flows through the town in a fine sweep locally called the Brink. Hofer and I started for a point on the brink of the caon where we could have a better view. Beckner's Back From the Brink provides a mind-numbing recitation of decision-making in the first half of his tenure at the Fed. Then he laid his master's body upon the streamlet's brink, to wash away the blood. Yet a fourth time it clambered up again, and this time it lipped the brink and poured over the intrenchment at the top. There was a great shock, and the cabin seemed to totter on the brink of the chasm. Taking the haversack, he left the thicket and went back to the brink of Chickahominy. Country-seat terraced and arbored and parterred clear to the water's brink. I resolve to hope to be quiet, and to lie on the brink on my side, till the water fall and the ford be ridable. The tree containing it, a variety of the wild cherry, stood upon the brink of the bald summit of a high mountain. What with his blued skin and distended veins, his puffed lips and slurred speech, he seemed on the brink of an apoplectic seizure. He was on the borderland between life and death, his feet were at the brink. Below the house of yakka hanutsh there stood a group of men, their faces turned toward the brink of the mesa. Just at the brink of the stream the leader, Roman nose, turned his face a moment toward the watching women. He stood on the brink much as Winkle, of Pickwickian memory, trembled in Weller's grasp. And this time he paused, on the brink of a dark canyon of a lane, running back between walls hung with bougainvillea. The men working at the 21 shadoof on the river brink have only a strip of cloth around their loins. I followed with the others round the corner to arrive at the brink of the canyon. Show More Sentences He swung himself silently over the brink and hung by a handhold on the rock. It preferred a dull existence of simple honesty to a roisterous feast on the brink of a moral and financial abyss. Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice. It was on the brink of the Barrage itself that I spoke to bailey. It was probably his daughter who led him back from the brink of the grave. Calendar waddled to the brink of the stage, grunting with relief. We lightly debate, we hesitate, we yawn, unconscious of the brink. So I came off with flying colours, though from an affair in which I was at the very brink of destruction. Poor food was this to nourish the mental appetite of a girl just upon the brink of womanhood. I paused involuntarily a hundred paces from the brink of the cataract. He could not see over the rounded brink of the cliff, but he had no need. He cleared the castle and stood for a moment at the brink of fantasyland. Then she returned, took her banner, and stood on the brink of the fosse. It was a hair-raising coast, but we made the brink without a spill. Had Boro been on the brink, as the catastrophists claim surely they would have cashed in on Leroy Lita and Andrew Taylor. Pausing upon the brink of the ledge I upbraided myself for what now seemed to me wholly unwarranted apprehension. Just at that time, mirza came up and stood on the brink of the pond. Goshawks are now teetering on the brink of extinction in the area due to illegal killings. Traddles find us on the brink of migration, and will excuse any little discomforts incidental to that position. On the brink of that terrible conclusion, Miss Garth shrank back in dismay. Show More Sentences He resisted, as though I had been forcing him over the brink of perdition. The rebels were on the brink of a precipice, and extricated themselves. Perhaps even I may move her so far yet, though it is the eleventh hour, and she upon the very brink of ruin. Horror-struck, I hastened to the brink of the abyss just in time to see two splashes upon the surface of the little cove below. She went on talking to me with that ease which communicates ease, and, as I listened, a revelation dawned in my mind that I was on the brink of falling in love. On the brink of departure she was always seized with a flux of words. Standing at its brink, like a swimmer who prepares, was the good man. This is an agency that has teetered on the brink for many years. But after an outstanding display in Brazil's 3-1 midweek friendly win over Portugal in the US, Alves senses the 21-year-old is on the brink of proving he's heaven-sent. This one of mine will gallop up the mountain roads without turning a hair, and will never miss his footing in a canter along the brink of a precipice. We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin. Find more words! 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