Sentence examples for verging on desperation from inspiring English sources

The study, published on Monday in the Journal of Public Health, finds that worries around debt, rent arrears and the prospect of being forced to move from their family home produced a sense of "hopelessness verging on desperation".

Directed with a bravado that verges on desperation by the redoubtable George C. Wolfe, this big, untidy historical comedy is pretty much the sum of what it cites.

After all, we've seen desperate women before: our own Bridget Jones defined life in terms of calories and catching men, but, at least in her case that desperation was leavened by the occasional down-to-earth acknowledgement that her actions were verging on the insane.

It was verging on rare.

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

ATMOSPHERE -- Verging on futuristic.

Verging on being OK.

Or was it verging on harassment?

Yet these declines are verging on microscopic.

Verging on inedible.

It was verging on pathological.