Sentence examples for brink of ceasing from inspiring English sources

Years before, when I was eleven or twelve, just on the brink of ceasing to be a little boy, my mother and I, one Sunday afternoon — my father was busy, or asleep — hiked up to the top of Shale Hill, a child's mountain that formed one side of the valley that held our town.

Death, of ceasing to exist.

Reduction of ceasing of egg production.

For the main reason the world's wealthiest country finds itself on the brink of default is because Republicans have ceased to operate as a political party.

For 17 days in October the US government ceased to function altogether, while bitter infighting in Washington took the country to the brink of a disastrous default.

The brink of what?

"They're on the brink of disaster.

Chicago is on the brink of elimination.

They stand on the brink of life.

"Standing at the brink of history?

Europe is on the brink of recession.