Examples of brink in a Sentence
was at the brink of death when the rescuers arrived
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Hope still wafted through the 104,122 in attendance, especially after Reed drove the team downfield to brink of overtime, only to come up short on a touch pass the Hurricanes read well.
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Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 21 Dec. 2025
Large corporate bankruptcies are surging in 2025, with inflation, interest rates and policy uncertainty driving more major U.S. companies to the financial brink, according to a report from Cornerstone Research.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
With Metro Boomin and Southside pushing Atlanta trap music to its soul-bleeding brink, Future is bursting at the seams with vindictiveness, misery, and passion.
—Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
Local wages, however, haven’t kept pace, pushing more and more households toward the financial brink.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Brink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brink. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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