Sentence examples for A brink from inspiring English sources
The sense is of stepping out over a brink.
"We are very much on a brink – if you look across to America, obesity rates are sky-high," said Redgrave.
"The airline sector is broadly at a brink of financial disaster," said Kapil Kaul, the South Asia chief executive at the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation.
She also takes ever greater risks in basic transfers of weight, stepping from one foot onto the other with astounding lunges as if over a brink.
A gritty Knicks team, with Anderson playing his game and Mutombo guarding the basket and stuffing Pierce once in the third quarter, pushed him to such a brink.
It often used to feel as if the dancers were stepping fearlessly out over a brink, and it was thrilling to behold.
A 2-liter 4-cylinder, turbocharged to a brink-of-disaster 17.9 p.s.i. of boost.
His victories at the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness have generated a brink-of-victory frenzy the Philadelphia area knows all too well.
It evokes the 1970s and its mildewed economic turmoil right down to a concluding (and overly on-the-nose) quote from a brink-of-power Margaret Thatcher at the close.
Only the Wagner arrived at Goldin's office, at the insistence of his insurer, in a Brinks truck.
And in 1981, in an armed robbery of a Brinks armored truck in Nanuet, N.Y., that involved Weather Underground members including Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed.
