How to Use brink in a Sentence

brink

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  • Aliyu has lost nine colleagues and said he was even pushed to the brink himself.
    — NBC News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • And Chavez, whom Trevante finds, is on the brink of death.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The south region has since come back from the brink, with more than 20% of its ICU beds now available.
    — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Season 1 pushed its characters to a heartbreaking (and hilarious) brink.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Despite his generosity, Sasha is teetering on the brink of financial failure.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
  • With the Red Sox at the brink of elimination, those holding 50/1 tickets confront a perilous course.
    — Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The contraction is the first since the beginning of pandemic, and comes on the heels of the crisis at property giant Evergrande, a firm on the brink of default.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The extreme dislocation in the market for junk bonds of Chinese companies has put another developer on the brink of default.
    — Elaine Yu, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2021
  • At their worst, some of their ideas have licensed an exploitative, expansionist way of life that has helped fuel global warming and pushed civilization toward the brink of self-destruction.
    — Kathleen Dean Moore, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2021
  • On the brink of elimination, Los Angeles routed Atlanta in Game 5 to extend the series.
    — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • The car was only 50 yards from the brink of the American Falls.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The pleading tears of her 19-year-old sister helped pull her back from the brink.
    — Akilah Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • One is the metabolic disease that had brought Colton to the brink of death.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • But Janine is at the brink of landing on what her style is.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 28 Mar. 2022
  • That’s code for stop driving people who are on the brink.
    — Dede Henley, Forbes, 30 Jan. 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
  • Many more companies are teetering on the financial brink.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Profligate spending and overly bullish fund-raising projections put the campaign on the financial brink after only two months.
    — Nicholas Nehamas, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023

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