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In some cases this has been described as verging on a public health crisis.

He looked at the boy with something verging on admiration.

Her voice was much cooler than his, verging on cold.

Until now, I had regarded that as verging on poor form.

Every visit was exciting, verging on a life and death experience.

Iraq, too, the country “made a democracy” by America, is verging on civil war.

It was verging across the line from politics into physics.

It was night, verging on dawn, but he would not rest.

She could not know that his feeling for her was verging on the forbidden.

I am sure we can find a doctor to say that he was verging on the insane.

Grass stood three feet tall in places, dark green verging on black.

His face suddenly hurt a little, with something like the pain of verging tears.

He thought the Society was verging on quite serious financial disarray.

Now, many of those who chose to are verging on bankruptcy.

Obama came to office with the nation's economic institutions verging on collapse.

As for the combination, let’s say “bland verging on odd”.

With the price of gold verging toward $800 an ounce, they are worth about $170 billion.

And the color of the meat itself was a rich red verging on purple.

In fact it may be even verging on the distasteful.

That being, at his core, was already verging on extinction.

However, the other tanks were con- verging on his own.

We are a group of women verging on old, old age.

His statement seems to me to be verging on the totalitarian.

The way he said it, voice verging on despair, always amused us.

Indeed, I thought that we were verging on a kind of cautious friendship.