Sentence examples for that verges on from inspiring English sources

That verges on the blast-off performance of a Bugatti Veyron — or a Formula One car.

And he regularly lapses into a management language that verges on the ridiculous.

Hardworking, practical, and proud of their traditions, the Scots have a reputation for thrift that verges on miserliness.

STEVEN KLEIN is an affable photographer whose work has a dark and sadistic edge that verges on the demonic.

Boris Johnson if anything exaggerates his hearty, upper-class voice and uses language that verges on the Woosteresque.

(Like many significant Brazilian songwriters of the last half century, Veloso occasionally makes music that verges on the soporific.

All this is orchestrated by the director, Sam Raimi, with a halting, scattershot approach that verges on panic.

Any proposal to build new homes for families is condemned in language that verges on the hysterical.

Mr. Hickenlooper called the arrangement "a conflict of interests that verges on corruption," an accusation the team disputes.

Marai presents this scene with a keen sense for drama, which he handles with a quality that verges on delight.

Other countries are under less pressure to experiment: Britain has an outsize banking system that verges on being too big to save, let alone too big to fail.