Sentence examples for brink in from inspiring English sources

The court was teetering on the brink in this term.

Mr. Berhanyer's label came close to the brink in 1978.

We discovered them on the brink, in the midst or in the wake of important events.

A financial control board helped pull New York City from the brink in the 1970s.

But the status quo also presumes living on the brink in perpetuity.

We'll start with the Sun, which declares "Backstop from the brink" in its splash headline.

Both featured modern-day characters living on the brink in times of uncertainty and inequality.

Sheet competition pushed one of Kevin Robke's relationships to the brink in 1996.

By Samuel G. Freedman February 17 ,2015 The South African author André Brink, in 1980.

It's a place that's on the brink in every sense of the word.

Ms. McBride and Mr. Tomasson were like this — but oh! how much more so: more on-the-brink in timing, more full in texture, more beating-heart in passion.