Sentence examples for its brink from inspiring English sources

A moat of black liquid lies, placid and menacing, in front of the stage, and every so often one of the characters walks to its brink and stares into it.

There are no witnesses from the grave, but there is speech from its brink.

Orwell, reviewing the book for this magazine in 1948, scoffed at Greene's "cult of the sanctified sinner": "When people really believed in Hell, they were not so fond of striking graceful attitudes on its brink".

Earlier in the evening, the defending champion, Andy Murray, became the highest seed to drop a set at the Open, and for a moment it looked as if Leonardo Mayer of Argentina could push the match to its brink.

Even by his standards, the ratio of ebb to flow feels notably sorrowful here, with most of the characters either slumped squarely in middle age or teetering on its brink.

In the U.S., the film states, 42 million women — one in three — are living in poverty or teetering on its brink.

Romney, the so-called "inevitable" nominee whose campaign just happens to be on its own brink of implosion, is a fairly loathsome chap.

Brazil has stepped back from the brink: its currency and its bonds have rallied strongly, after its new centre-left government committed itself to tight fiscal and monetary policies.

It is now aiming its vitriol at Brink's chief executive, Michael T. Dan, who will stand for re-election this year.

No matter its historical reach, Brink's relentlessly nightmarish plot threatens to collapse under the weight of its own agony.

But his administration, at long last beyond its honeymoon, is on the brink of its long goodbye: talk of amending the constitution to allow him more than the permitted single six-year term ending in 2016 has been dropped.