Sentence examples for brink in this from inspiring English sources

The court was teetering on the brink in this term.

"The Madness of a Seduced Woman" (1983) reaffirmed Ms. Schaeffer's talent for imagining the lives of women on the brink, in this case a transplanted farm girl in 19th-century Vermont whose obsessive love for a stonecutter leads her to commit murder and attempt suicide.

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.

In one world, we are moving away from the brink; in the other we are moving toward it.

Roddick was vindicated, in a sense, when he pressed Federer to the brink in the 2009 Wimbledon final, succumbing 16-14, in the fifth set.

A financial control board helped pull New York City from the brink in the 1970s, and some have begun speaking of Detroit in similar terms.

Siena upset No. 13 Vanderbilt in the first round two years ago and topped No. 8 Ohio State last year before pushing top-seeded Louisville to the brink in the second round.

Rudy Giuliani, for the Republicans, faces a strong showing from Mitt Romney and other rivals.For background, see article GEORGIA claws back from the brink in the new year.

But soaring health costs are one of the big factors that have brought those car firms to the brink in the first place.

The first seven ended in draws – with Karjakin coming back from the brink in the third and fourth – before the challenger drew first blood in the eighth.