Sentence examples of "verge" in English

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She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Elle est au bord de la crise de nerfs.
I hear his business is on the verge of ruin. Apparemment son entreprise est au bord de la faillite.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Lors de mon adolescence, je détestais la vie et j'étais continuellement au bord du suicide, mais j'en étais écarté par le désir de connaître plus de mathématiques.
Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one. Tom et Mary s'apprêtaient à plonger, du bord gauche de la phrase, dans l'infini corpus, lorsqu'ils virent au-dessous un banc de contributeurs affamés, les dents dehors, prêts à leur sauter dessus et à déchiqueter leurs fautes jusqu'à la dernière.
She was on the verge of crying. Elle était sur le point de pleurer.
She was on the verge of killing herself. Elle était sur le point de se tuer.
This building is on the verge of collapsing. Cet édifice menace de s'effondrer.
The house was on the verge of collapse. La maison était sur le point de s'effondrer.
He was just on the verge of going to sleep. Il était sur le point d'aller se coucher.
He was on the verge of revealing the secret when a sharp look from Martha shut him up. Il était sur le point de révéler le secret lorsqu'un regard sévère de Marthe le fit se taire.
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