Sentence examples similar to verging on oblivion from inspiring English sources

Yiddish, once on the verge of oblivion, is passing a 21st-century milestone on Monday.

What publicity the chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat could attract outside his homeland was only ever condemnatory, and his political career, barely begun, appeared on the verge of oblivion.

Lansky, who won a MacArthur award in 1989, recounts his adventures as president and founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, traveling the world to salvage and catalog a literature once on the verge of oblivion.

It was verging on rare.

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

ATMOSPHERE -- Verging on futuristic.

Or was it verging on harassment?

Yet these declines are verging on microscopic.

Verging on being OK.

Verging on inedible.

It was verging on pathological.