Sentence examples for * verge in from inspiring English sources

Omar and his friends, stood on a motorway verge in Calais, called it "dougar".

"When you think about it, it sounds a bit crazy," Pichai admitted to the Verge in March.

The creators, meanwhile, briefly thought about shifting the story to New York ("Women on the verge in Poughkeepsie," Mr. Yazbek said, half-seriously) or to the present.

Orchid-spotters have long-known that the best site in the UK to take in a display of pyramidal orchids is a roadside verge in Warwickshire, yet the role verges play in conservation isn't widely appreciated.

With mainland film on the verge, in Fung's opinion, of a "renaissance", and Bollywood starting to flex its muscle in the west, you might have thought Hong Kong would get crushed in the middle.

Which is why, along with the wild blackberries and the horseradish I picked and dug from a grassy verge in Somerset, I recently served guests with sausages made from a deer I shot in the preceding days.

Biopsies in the rectum were collected at 10 cm from the anal verge, and in the terminal ileum at 5 cm from the ileo-cecal valve.

"We're on the verge now in this semantic world".

The problem is that, as an actor, Mr. Gibson doesn't do normal anymore and is at his best playing men on the verge, as in "Edge of Darkness," a thriller about a cop hunting his daughter's murderer.

Some residents were even taking advantage of the floods: on what had been a roadside verge, men in sodden trousers fished with nets, sharpened sticks and plastic beer crates for the foot-long fish that had escaped nearby farms.

More likely, Mr. Marchionne reasoned that he could apply the few minutes he saves shaving every day to continuing the turnaround that has brought Chrysler to the verge of, in his words, "coming back into the market as a respectable player".