Sentence examples for two verges from inspiring English sources

A white, five-toothed, stepped carpet pattern was added to the flag, beginning at the two verges of the cloth's right side and connecting at a point equal to one-third of the distance from that side.

Ms. Lempel has added some fresh, new words for us to crunch on, and it only worries me slightly that all except one verges on the negative: WORRISOME, SUCH A PITY, FELL APART and LACKED make me think that Ms. Lempel doesn't do Mondays very well.

This one verged on hostility, setting the stage for what could be the biggest and most bruising takeover battle in banking's history.The contest involves numerous institutions, all betting astronomical amounts for a Dutch institution with offices in 53 countries that has never quite managed to piece its sprawling network together.

In series two, Jill verges on the murderous.

"Body Awareness," the first of Ms. Baker's works to be produced in New York (in 2008), is the one that verges most dangerously on the cozily idiosyncratic.

It's a weepie as well, one that verges on the preposterous at times but that still has a considerable emotional kick.

At eight, flesh verges on the exotic.

Shatner described The Voyage Homes comic quality as one "that verges on tongue-in-cheek but isn't; it's as though the characters within the play have a great deal of joy about themselves, a joy of living [and] you play it with the reality you would in a kitchen-sink drama written for today's life".

An average of 12 bees per count were spotted on allotments compared to 10 in the countryside, eight in gardens, seven in parks and only four on roadside verges.

Seventy-two per cent verges on omniscience.

This ham-fisted restoration, says one foreign academic, "verges on Disneyfication".