Verge in a sentence as a noun

His pancreas was on the verge of shutting down.

Tune your career so that you are always on the verge of being overwhelmed.

People on the verge of joining your cause are thinking, "Why should I believe this guy, he can't even keep his footnote markers under control!

We get funded to develop something, and we're on the verge of making a sale, when the parent company decides to pull the plug.

Verge in a sentence as a verb

Sometimes you can get the sense of being on the verge of something big--but the gnarly difficulty lies in bringing it down from the abstraction.

But now that I read Der Strmer, I see so much more: that the Jews control all the banks, that we dominate in the arts, and that we're on the verge of taking over the entire world.

Many around these parts will make glib insinuations about the "Gatekeeper" feature heralding Apple's clawing away the freedoms of it's users, one-by-one, until we are all prisoners of "the computer as a jail made cool".However, it seems to me that Gatekeeper's presence embodies a rather more embarrassing admission that, yes, Mac OS is on the verge of needing some kind of malware protection; in the wake of the Mac Defender malware surfacing last year, it was really only a matter of time.

Verge definitions

noun

a region marking a boundary

See also: brink threshold

noun

the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"

See also: brink

noun

a ceremonial or emblematic staff

See also: scepter sceptre wand

noun

a grass border along a road

verb

border on; come close to; "His behavior verges on the criminal"