noun
definition
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank or edge.
example
the brink of a river
definition
The edge or border
example
He's on the brink of madness.
Examples of brink in a Sentence
This woman could bring me to the brink of insanity.
It was a time of plots and counterplots, when England seemed on the brink of another civil war.
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
That Dr Cornay was on the brink of making a discovery of considerable merit will by and by appear; but, with every disposition to regard his investigations favourably, it cannot be said that he accomplished it.
Sufficient to say that in the opening quarter of the r4th century England and France at least stood on the brink of "modern times."
Robespierre, who was himself on the brink of the volcano, remembered the venomous sallies in the Journal de Paris.
The States of the Church, like France, were on the brink of bankruptcy.
Its end led directly to the Cold War, which consumed inconceivable amounts of money and almost pushed the world to the brink of nuclear devastation.
His head slammed against something hard and he lay there, momentarily stunned to the brink of unconsciousness before turning slowly to his side and opening his eyes.
His whole life on the brink of destruction if it were recognized what he was doing.
Twelve months later the Tigers were on the brink of a second successive promotion.
On the brink of adolescence, this age range can be a nightmare for both parent and the pre teenager himself/herself, and so it is important to understand the varying emotions, interests, and thoughts he/she is experiencing.
Everything about her - her voice, her persona, even her clothes seems to tremble permanently on the brink of total meltdown.
All in all considering I was on the brink of death, I am doing pretty well.
Readers of Dante know the idea that the dead have no shadows; this was no invention of the poet's but a piece of traditionary lore; at the present day among the Basutos it is held that a man walking by the brink of a river may lose his life if his shadow falls on the water, for a crocodile may seize it and draw him in; in Tasmania, North and South America and classical Europe is found the conception that the soul - o-tab., umbra - is somehow identical with the shadow of a man.
At the very brink of the chasm his horse stood still.
Kehl Spring Campground is located in a picturesque stand of ponderosa pines right at the brink of one of Arizona's most amazing geologic features, the Mogollon Rim.
The country had been brought by the Austro-Hungarian war policy to the very brink of economic and financial ruin.
He found in 1653 his country brought to the brink of ruin through the war with England, which had been caused by the keen commercial rivalry of the two maritime states.
Bouger and La Condamine were the first to reach its brink in 1742, after which Humboldt made the ascent in 1802, Boussingault and Hall in 1831, Garcia Moreno and Sebastian Wisse in 1844 and 1845 (descending into the crater for the first time), Garcia Moreno and Jameson in 1857, Farrand and Hassaurek in 1862, Orton in 1867, and Whymper in 1880.
He was the last of those universal minds which have been able to compass all domains of human activity and knowledge; for he stood on the brink of an era of rapidly expanding knowledge which has made for ever impossible the universality of interest and sympathy which distinguished him.
The de Gaulle regime which had reached the brink had its continuance ensured.
She moved toward it, but, as she approached the brink, lo!
Adaptive re-use has in this case rescued a building of great historical and architectural merit from the brink of disaster.
Hundreds of years ago, the country teetered on the brink of a change in power.
The sections below outline common tips that have brought many couples back from the brink of divorce.
Finding effective ways to prevent divorce can bring couples back from the precarious brink of divorce.
The allure of the beautiful, shiny packaging and shimmery, colorful products is enough to drive any woman to the brink of cash-spending madness.
At this time the state had been brought to the brink of ruin by the growth of avarice and luxury; there was a glaring inequality in the distribution of land and wealth, and the number of full citizens had sunk to 700, of whom about roc practically monopolized the land.
The provocative actions of the French Convention, especially their setting aside of the rights of the Dutch over the estuary of the Scheldt, had brought the two nations to the brink of war, when the execution of Louis XVI.
Wetzlar brought new friends and another passion, that for Charlotte Buff, the daughter of the Amtmann there - a love-story which has been immortalized in Werthers Leiden - and again the young poet's nature was obsessed by a love which was this time strong enough to bring him to the brink of that suicide with which the novel ends.
Sunday 16 th July Lord, have mercy on our wayward world, tottering on the brink of self-destruction.
Each area will have its own challenges, testing your wits and putting your character closer to the brink of insanity.
Situated 65 miles southeast of Flagstaff, on the brink of the Mogollon Rim, Kehl Spring Campground offers spectacular scenery overlooking the Arizona landscape.
This high altitude campground is situated on the brink of the Mogollon Rim and offers many spectacular trails for hiking and mountain biking.
This style of negotiation is often done when another person is on the brink of death.
None can guarantee that you will go into labor, but some of them can encourage the process if you are already on the brink of going into labor.
In the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon, for example, the world is poised on the brink of destruction as a tremendous asteroid takes aim at the planet, but when A.J.
The world sits on the brink of Armageddon, since Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) are so wide-spread throughout the world's nations.
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park was designed to preserve animals on the brink of extinction.
The plot carries them toward the Mountain of Doom and the brink of war.
In most cases, humanity is brought to the brink of extinction.
The struggle against the unknown often involves superior forces or dangerous methods and could leave humanity on the brink of extinction.
When a line of willows indicates the whereabouts of a brook, the horse should be well collected, a clear place selected, so far as circumstances allow, and the pace increased, though in short strides, up to the very brink.
Delivered from the brink and guided to a woman like her.
A city on the brink of total anarchy is being held hostage by the increased threat of organized gang violence.
Such a crisis holds the potential to bring the world to the nuclear brink.
Wednesday 5th April 2006 Your expensive tastes could push you over the financial brink.
Yet the Parliament stands on the brink of legitimizing such extortion in the electronic arena.
The bloodstream form trypanosome is therefore continuously balancing on the brink of destruction.