What is "verging"

Usage examples of "verging".

With a successful governorship under his belt, his chances of nabbing the board seat were good verging on excellent.

Both Matzerath and Jan Bronski looked so ridiculous verging on pathetic with their incipient potbellies that I was glad when, late in the afternoon, we returned to the bath houses and, having anointed our sunburns, slipped back into Sunday civilian dress.

He turns and locks eyes with Prag, who is looking inscrutable, verging on pissed off.

Profits were slim verging on non-existent, and he couldn’t afford to bump his rates up any higher, he wouldn’t land a single charter.

Something about Quinn was monstrously intimidating, verging on menacing.

He was fat verging on obese, his skin was flaky, his hair was dulled by a week’s accumulation of oil.

In its place was a hideously alien expression of contempt verging on cruelty.

In its favour, the electronic suite Gilmore had installed was a top-of-the range Edenist processor array verging on AI status.

It seems to have been a profound lethargy, verging on melancholia, that deterred him from trying to make a break for it at Letzkau or Käsemark.

My poor mama's death had put an end to the relations, sometimes verging on friendship, between Matzerath and my uncle, who had meanwhile been promoted to the position of postal secretary.

The platform and the steps leading up to it -- Oskar had seen a corner of it from the shop -- gave the whole edifice a quality verging on the sublime.

The corners of this coordinate plane were anchored by the wisdom teeth themselves, which even to the dentally unsophisticated Randy looked just a little disturbing in that each one was about the size of his thumb (though maybe this was just a distortion in the coordinate transform--like the famously swollen Greenland of Mercator) and they were pretty far away from any other teeth, which (logically) would seem to put them in parts of his body not normally considered to be within a dentist's purview, and they were at the wrong angle--not just a little crooked, but verging on upside down and backwards.

Barak bent an iron bar into something resembling a pretzel, and Hettar put them into a state verging on stunned amazement by a dazzling display of horsemanship.

The flourishing pro-French democratic societies were secret political clubs verging on vigilante groups and seemed truly bent on gaining French control over American politics.

Bela Lincoln of Hingham and Ebenezer Storer, the treasurer of Harvard—and as Josiah noted, she and Adams were now both verging on their ninety-first year.