Sentence examples for verging on abusive from inspiring English sources

Training at state-run facilities can be brutal, sometimes verging on abusive: Photographs of Nanning Gymnasium, in southern China, published last year showed children screaming in pain as coaches stood on their legs.

David Weston, chairman of the association, claimed that the relationship between B&Bs and global agents was "unequal and unfair, at times verging on the abusive".

It was verging on rare.

"O.K.," Loria said, verging on impatient.

ATMOSPHERE -- Verging on futuristic.

Verging on being OK.

Verging on inedible.

Or was it verging on harassment?

Yet these declines are verging on microscopic.

It was verging on pathological.

Verging on Christmas cake though.