Cusp in a sentence as a noun

It is literally on the cusp of going mainstream.

Startups often live on the cusp of 'other people think we should quit but we're not going to!

The joy of being 12/13 is that you're still in that cusp between child and semi-adult.

We are just on the cusp of huge smart-grid rollouts in many western countries.

After many years, every groove in your soul matches a cusp in hers, and vice versa.

They use the space, as opposed to letting it sit, rotting and empty in the heart of a city on the cusp of a genuine housing crisis.

For about 15-20 years I was either on the cusp of obesity, was always overweight - and certainly was never in the slightest bit of good physical shape.

We are now on the cusp of being a police state, but I really hope people won't let that dissuade them from exercising their civic duty to engage the democratic process.

That said, Tolkiens works exist at an interesting cusp in the course of human history, as we are transitioning from a dearth of contextual clues surrounding works of art, to an extreme excess.

Time is the most precious thing we have, and we live on the cusp of technologies that will allow us to gain more of it - but those advances in medicine won't happen soon enough unless we work at it.

And yet here we stand on the cusp of creating a whole new breed of pilots who are ready willing and able to follow simple common-sense rules for UAV aviation, creating a new sector of jobs that didn't exist before.

Because for some pathetic reason, we're apparently still on the cusp of accepting that we are probably almost sure why the bees are dying, but a huge swath of us are turning a blind eye out of scientific ignorance or out of bribery.

Who will satisfy them?If you're an entrepreneur, there are millions if not billions of people who are on the cusp of becoming your target market, and the dominant technological discourse and journalistic coverage gives you no insight into the market they occupy.

Most of Chinese philosophy seems to me to be mostly about society and the duty of men etc. I'm sure China excelled at organizing an efficient society with a comparatively huge population, but that doesn't mean that they were on the cusp of something bigger.

We must be more diligent, and with greater resolve to fight back now, than ever before in history - because we are at the cusp of allowing a seriously evil influence over the world to have its will - whereas in the 60's and 70's, people were willing to stand up and fight, now hardly anyone will.

In the climactic scene where the protagonist is on the cusp of capturing the Macguffin, what the plot needs--and what needs therefore to be quickly, visually, and unambiguously communicated to the audience--is that the protagonist or the protagonist's allies have been granted access to the god-like computer system that unlocks the whosywhatsit.

Cusp definitions

noun

point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch)

noun

a thin triangular flap of a heart valve

See also: leaflet

noun

small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth