Sentence examples for to verge from inspiring English sources
noun
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger. The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge.
No-one wants to verge off script.
Another man, interviewed by the BBC, appeared to verge on tears.
The whole business was a classic exercise in propaganda, so blatant as to verge on kitsch.
Detractors would argue that there's the rub: our expectations may start to verge on the ridiculous.
Another concern for Mr. Gore is that he must control his inclination to verge on condescension.
The décor is so unobjectionable as to verge on the anonymous.
In pieces like "Maureen" and the all-gold "Lying Around," such forms combine to verge on the figurative.
(His condition, in its indolence so extreme as to verge on the comedic, would appear to owe something to Beckett).
Ms. Callaway, whose honeyed voice used to verge on tears much of the time, has clearly developed emotional armor.
In a way, this is a tribute to Mortensen, whose performance is so cool and unhurried as to verge on zombification.
Although so subjective as to verge on the ridiculous (viz all those English bars), the list may give the wandering business traveller some ideas.
