Sentence examples for their brink from inspiring English sources

At last she told Arty that they would have to take the stairs, and she carried him over to their brink and started the descent with her weighty dying charge.

As I waited for my turn, a girl with bad posture hopped onto the stage, a giant gummy grin pushing her cheeks to their brink, her freckled hands fidgeting like a child's.

Shiancoe, contrastingly, is more of the Sydney type- sarcastic, bitter, sneaky and always willing to push her foes to their brink.

"This year the valley seemed creeping with horned vipers and puff-adders, cobras and black snakes," Lawrence writes in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" of one stage in the journey: We could not lightly draw water after dark, for there were snakes swimming in the pools or clustering in knots around their brinks.

At their very brink is Treloan's campsite – just a field's breadth away from the open sea.

They teeter on the brink, their scale and form a world away from the shopping mall planned for the vast space beneath.

He studies the night sky and ponders those cold, huddled, hurting Indian families, imagining what they felt on the brink of their apocalypse, their surrender to the United States Army.

Often you don't realise the game's significance until later, although that was not the case with Milan's seismic win at Napoli which powered them to the brink of their first Scudetto under Arrigo Sacchi (and their only Scudetto under Sacchi, an odd statistic for an unquestionably iconic team).

He is one of he reasons why Sussex, needing 164 to beat Somerset, are on the brink of their fifth championship success in seven matches and their eighth victory in 10 games in all cricket.

The Lady Vols have reached the brink of their seventh national title in a most unusual fashion, their 52-50 victoverover Louisiana State in the semifinals on Sunday night at New Orleans Arena being the latest installment.

Yet through all of this remains the spark of something we remember from the first film – the vision of two people on the brink of their first kiss, both hesitating (like Gatsby) to wed their unutterable dreams to the perishable breath of another, knowing that to do so will result in both fulfilment and desolation.