verges in English
they came down to the verge of the lake
‘I will carry on looking after the verges until they (the council) shoot me,’ he said.
Use "verges" in a sentence
1. Such a remark verges on impertinence.
2. "Appaloosa" verges on being a great film
3. 11 She has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania.
4. Synonyms for Adjoins include joins, abuts, borders, touches, borders on, neighbours, verges on, annexes, approximates and flanks
5. Synonyms for Attaches to include abuts, adjoins, joins, touches, borders, neighbours, meets, verges on, annexes and flanks
6. 17 My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
7. Look for the delicate, pink flowers of Common Bistort in wet meadows, pastures and roadside verges
8. COMSTOCK With this sagacity of leadership Gompers has combined a fearlessness that sometimes verges on Brazenness
9. Red Bartsia is a common plant of roadside verges, railway cuttings, waste ground and other disturbed ground
10. 21 They guided cars to the curving verges of grass, once mown close, now high and grown with thistles.
11. 27 Grass road verges have almost vanished, whittled away by the volume of traffic and the inexorable weight of tractor wheels.
12. Grass road verges have almost vanished, whittled away by the volume of traffic and the inexorable weight of tractor wheels.
13. Authors of a book dealing with rape prevention noted: “Some people, reading over our advice, will say that it verges on paranoia. . . .
14. The basic RTS elements are sound, but the hero mode verges on awful, boat control is a nightmare, and the campaigns are dull...
15. Yet even with all the Conflations and simplifications, and a middle act that verges on an extended montage of guerrilla warfare and undercover intrigue, A Call to Spy is undeniably a heartfelt
16. Anchusa capensis has been long introduced into our gardens, it is native to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, preferring dry, sandy places it is often found in disturbed areas such as roadside verges
17. The white-barred piculet occupies various habitats including wet and dry woodland, forest verges, thickets, gallery forests, wooded savannah, scrub, bamboo clumps, vines, creepers and overgrown parks and gardens at elevations of up to about 2,200 m (7,200 ft).
18. Examples from Classical Literature It was the vulgarity and Brazenness of the New York grisette breaking out, or the spangles and sawdust of the circus-rider. With this sagacity of leadership Gompers has combined a fearlessness that sometimes verges on Brazenness.
19. This page is a cloud between whose fraying edges a headland with mountains appears Brokenly then is hidden again until what emerges from the now cloudless blue is the grooved sea and the whole self-naming island, its ochre verges, its shadow-plunged valleys and a coiled road threading the fishing villages, the white, silent surges of combers along the coast, where a line of gulls has arrowed