Sentence examples for hover on the threshold from inspiring English sources

One morning you hover on the threshold, knowing for certain the first touch of the light will finish you.

By the closing stanza, its narrator has succumbed to a sort of sweet obliteration: "One morning/you hover on the threshold, knowing for certain/the first touch of the light will finish you".

Yvonne Nos, aged 100, hovers on the threshold of her room, peering out into a wide corridor.

The viewer stands outside swing doors ajar, behind which a yellow lamp-shade hovers on the threshold of a realm of episcopal purples.

So I would find myself, at 9.50am, hovering on the threshold of William Hill in South End Green, waiting for the joint to open.

Mr. Jurowski's discography, not yet huge, features the predictable Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich but also Giya Kancheli's "Exil," a contemporary chamber piece for soprano, instruments and tape that hovers on the threshold of silence, and new music by the spiky British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Peeking through an open door – a little girl dressed in pink hovering on the threshold – I see a tidy flat with a large family portrait hanging above the dining table.

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Harmonies hovered poignantly on the threshold of tonality, pristine chantlike passages soured with dissonance, and hope and pessimism crisscrossed in vivid antiphony.

Egypt hovers on the brink.

Each image hovers on the verge of abstraction.