Usage examples of "ränder" in German with translation to English

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Die Schlafzimmervorhänge sind am Rand verblasst. The bedroom curtains have faded at the edges.

Sie ist am Rand eines Nervenzusammenbruchs. She is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Er beschädigte den Rand der Teeschale. He chipped the edge of the tea cup.

Die Firma meines Vaters ist am Rande des Bankrotts. My father's company is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Drei aus dem Krieg heimgekehrte Soldaten mieten ein Haus am Rande einer kleinen Stadt am Ufer der Inlandsee und leben zusammen. Three soldiers who came back from the war are renting a house at the edge of a small town on the shore of the Inland Sea and live together.

Tom und Mary schickten sich gerade an, vom linken Rand des Satzes in die Unendlichkeit des Korpus abzutauchen, als sie unten einen Schwarm hungriger, zähnefletschender Mitarbeiter erblickten, die nur darauf warteten, sich auf sie zu stürzen und ihre Fehler bis aufs Letzte zu zerreißen. 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.

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