Forgetting her role of hostess, she busied herself exclusively with bulky Steiner, who was verging on apoplexy beside her.
The scene was one of confusion, verging to all appearances on absolute chaos, but every little move had been prearranged.
This handsome bachelor, verging on the fifties, is very much a man of the world, is received in the most exclusive sets, and has been known to carry on the most intimate conversations with charming ladies in his office.
The Ramble Valley young men were very fond of dancing attendance on Judith, even if she were verging on old maidenhood.
The two women, verging on decisive old maidenhood, solemnly promised each other that they would never marry, and would always live together.
Nevertheless, the questions may be asked: Is the species verging toward extinction?
And yet I hated her not after I learned her utter wretchedness--her deep misery, verging even upon madness--I hated her not then.
The night of the 21st-22d, was a bitterly cold one, verging on freezing, and we slept soundly after our loss of sleep the night before.
By the time they reached the Three Tranters, it was verging upon ten o'clock.
He was not a heavy sleeper, and it was verging upon his time to rise.
At the period in question they were said to be in great distress for want of provisions; and as a force was collecting to attack them from various quarters, it was greatly to be hoped that the war was verging to a termination.
Not Faraday alone, but half a dozen different men had an inkling of it before it gained full expression; indeed, every man who advocated the undulatory theory of light and heat was verging towards the goal.
Already, it seems to Herschel, the thickest clusters have "outlived their usefulness" and are verging towards their doom.
As if Y fall in the middle between F and G, the compounded Colour shall be the best yellow; if Y verge from the middle towards F or G, the compound Colour shall accordingly be a yellow, verging towards orange or green.
At [Greek: ch] the mixture of all Colours but violet and indigo will compound a faint yellow, verging more to green than to orange.
It was elliptical, and its long Diameter was perpendicular to the Horizon, verging below farthest from the Moon.
At S where all the Rays are mixed, except the red-making and orange-making, their Colours ought by the same Rule to compound a faint blue, verging more to green than indigo.
These are characterized by a rich blue colour generally piled up in palpable relief and sometimes verging on black; the outlines are usually in manganese, and transparent green is used for details and occasionally even as a ground colour.
Her plots, verging on the farcical, were always ingenious and amusing, though coarse after the fashion of the time, and the dialogue fluent.
It would be very unfair to draw a comparison between an ordinary roadside inn in England and its synonym up in the country of America; a better parallel is a speculative railway tavern verging always on bankruptcy.
The first alcoholic liquors were of a red verging on yellow.
The red mass is next poured into a flat vessel, and left to evaporate till its urinous smell has disappeared, and till it has assumed an agreeable colour verging upon violet.
The sulphur of commerce occurs in three prevailing colours; lemon yellow verging on green, dark yellow, and brown yellow.
Another pleasant walk is to Little Harbor, taking by the way a look at the old house near Jaffrey's Point, that is verging on two hundred years, yet seems staunch and strong.
He told two or three stories vergingon the improper, a concession to the company, for his stories were not used to verging.
Written with a frankness verging on Rousseau's, Mr. Wells still uses rare discrimination and the border line of propriety is never crossed.
It was sufficiently ridiculous to be compelled, as it were, to treat a paid servant as an equal, but it savored of madness to find him verging on the perilous borderland of a flirtation.
As he is verging on extinction, and as he gives to the wilds much of its spirit, there ought to be a closed season for a few years to protect this rollicking fellow of the forest.
They decided to trust to the brook's guidance and to the probability of its vergingin the direction of the sound.
Then the equestrian figure out of sight and the beat of his horse's hoofs heard no longer; and the scene relapsing into that languor born of the June morning verging rapidly towards noon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "verging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
