How to Use brink in a Sentence

brink

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  • Even on the brink of 80, the pagan child was alive and well.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • There was the Heat’s 35-point win that pushed them to the brink of a series win.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 12 May 2022
  • But the war in Ukraine pushed Sri Lanka closer to the brink.
    — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The Sox were on the brink of being swept and going 4-5 on this road trip.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
  • Once again, this time in the ninth inning, the Tigers were on the brink of destruction.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This is what a city on the brink of running out of water looks like.
    — René Marsh, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Piers’ return pushed the country to the brink of civil war.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • One is the metabolic disease that had brought Colton to the brink of death.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • All of which has led Austin and the Roadrunners to the brink of history.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Tens of millions of people in Africa are on the brink of severe hunger and famine.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022
  • But he is brought back from the brink by hammering on the door of his apartment.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Buford and her husband set about bringing the bar back from the brink.
    — Curbed, 9 Dec. 2022
  • This Steven Spielberg flick is set in 2045, where the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Eleven years later, Musk may be on the brink of eating his words.
    — Gregor Stuart Hunter, Fortune, 29 June 2022
  • But that experience is on the brink of some big changes and, the Joots fear, not for the better.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • The Santa Clauses, the title of the Disney+ series, will now see Scott on the brink of his 65th birthday.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 July 2022
  • Climate change is a leading force pushing winged wildlife to the brink.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In the short-term, the latest growth figures are likely to ease concerns that the U.S. is on the brink of a recession.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Record-breaking heat across Texas has pushed its fragile power grid to the brink.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 22 July 2022
  • People who took out loans from Celsius are on the brink of losing their homes.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 26 June 2022
  • Tucker’s team has won three of its last four to get to the brink of the program’s 14th postseason berth in the past 16 seasons.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The idea behind it stemmed from the 2021 winter storm, which left millions of Texans in the dark for days and brought the grid to a brink of collapse.
    — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
  • Melville wrote the book in 1857, on the brink of the Civil War, when the everyman made use of a loose, unchecked system of currency.
    — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • Waiting any longer would move the U.S. closer to the brink of a global health catastrophe.
    — Carlos Del Rio, STAT, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The school had declined after McAfee’s departure, and was on the brink of closing.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
  • The friction between the neighbors has brought the NATO allies to the brink of war three times in the last half-century.
    — Andrew Wilks, ajc, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Tens of millions of people in Africa or in the Middle East will turn out to be on the brink of starvation — because of the West.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • Each new hot pool may be an island on the brink of a transformation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The result has inched the nation close to the fiscal brink, threatening the government with default as soon as this summer.
    — Tony Romm, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • In 2011, for example, just going near the debt limit brink cost the government a credit-rating cut (by Standard & Poor’s) that has lasted ever since.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023

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