Synonym: threshold, verge. Similar words: shrink, bring, drink to, drink up, drink down, sprinkle, bring out, bring in. Meaning: [brɪŋk] n. 1. a region marking a boundary 2. the edge of a steep place 3. the limit beyond which something happens or changes.
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91. Wells was on the brink of death by consumption when his early work appeared.
92. Nearly one million Somalians are on the brink of death by starvation or disease.
93. Above all, there seemed no way out: the State budget was on the brink of bankruptcy.
94. The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill.
95. In the hit movie Withnall and I, the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction.
96. As long as the Dodgers remained the Dodgers, there was hope baseball could pull itself back from the brink.
97. Inevitably it meant that she and Jack were in closer proximity, and it threatened to push her sanity over the brink.
98. The lads came up from the gill with buckets of water and stood a-row along the brink.
99. On a steeply wooded bank on the brink of a stream valley I walked into the cherry grove.
100. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
101. At the brink of the chasm the upper half of his body rose for an instant with the arms uplifted.
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102. And yet here was his father on the brink of suicide destroyed by a bourgeois system that he so admired.
103. Some members say this decision has pushed them to the brink of deserting a church they love.
104. Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
105. That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.
106. Dramatic cases of moral conversion and last-minute rescues from the brink of hell-fire were a particular favourite.
107. But heal they do as we have seen from those lines who have been to the brink demonstrate.
108. Meanwhile his birth comes to seem more and more impossible and Abraham on several occasions brings everything to the brink of disaster.
109. But when the bust came, he teetered with others on the brink of bankruptcy.
110. After all, on the brink of war he could not alienate his chief general.
111. Laura Ashley, on the brink of collapse two years ago, confidently predicted a return to profitability and outlined expansion plans.
112. FRONT-ROW power has taken the Leicestershire club Vipers to the brink of a league and a cup double.
113. The child lay quietly against his chest, on the brink of sleep and so obviously relishing their closeness.
114. Wenger's Arsenal are on the brink of breaking into the knockout stage at the third time of asking.
115. This year the tenth anniversary of my first visit seemed to tip the project over the brink into plausibility.
116. After months of teetering on the brink, David Reed has filed for protection from his creditors.
117. Only one will take them away from the dangerous brink on which they have balanced for six weeks.
118. Some essential honesty about it brings it back from the brink.
119. Neither had Khrushchev, who also had hard-liners in Moscow pushing him toward the brink.
120. A year later, the Braves are on the brink of elimination again.
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