The limit beyond which something happens or changes

Usage examples of brink.

The Allegiancy is tumbling over the brink of disintegration, and trying to blame us.

Starting from an antipodal position, Kundera shares with Leclerc that sense of hovering at the borderline where a thought or situation, stretched to maximum intensity, teeters on the brink of collapse into the ridiculous or the absurd.

Digen had felt just this so often at the brink of attrition, at the gathering of a fourth primary abort, at the lip of sudden death.

On the brink of attrition, Vee uttered a choked cry, convulsed by the worst breakout contractions Rimon had ever seen.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Feather looked up, and his veins seemed to transform into ice when he beheld the hulking, bearish Figures on the brink of the ravine, perhaps 30 yards distant on the right-hand side.

Digen was still fighting for inner equilibrium, half aware of Sels and Bett poised at the brink of transfer.

When he heard her music and sensed she was at the brink of release, he bridled her fulfillment by changing the rhythm of the movement of his hips.

There would be no civil war if the exploiters who have carried mankind to the very brink of ruin had not prevented every forward step of the laboring masses, if they had not instigated plots and murders and called to their aid armed help from outside to maintain or restore their predatory privileges.

Early in the next afternoon they reached the brink of the Great South Sea and Don was transferred to a crazy wagon, a designation which applied to both boat and crewa flat, jet-propelled saucer fifteen feet across manned by two young extroverts who feared neither man nor mud.

In deference to the war effort, the AFL resisted quietly, but in April 1945, with Germany on the brink of defeat, Meany decided to take off his muzzle.

Both men were bleeding from a score of deep scratches, for they were fighting in the thorny pandanus scrub on the very brink of the cliff.

Tatum hiked along the meandering brink of the precipice, hoping a navigable cleft or rift would show itself, enabling them to descend and backtrack along their original parafoil flight path.

Exalted Inquisitor Parell Hyath stood upon the brink of pitching chaos, his hands held over his stomach in a posture of reflection and contemplation.

To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural, and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality.