How to use in-sentence of “brink”:
– This helped the empire to remain intact for another hundred years, despite having seemed near the brink of collapse in Diocletian’s youth.
– Edgar Allan Poe, for example, wrote of the “fancies” he experienced “only when I am on the brink of sleep, with the consciousness that I am so”.
– Recent historians have revised this assessment, characterizing Nerva as a well-intentioned but ultimately weak ruler, whose reign brought the Roman Empire to the brink of civil war.
– In 1970, Eddy Merckx rode himself to the brink of collapse but won the stage.
– In December 1991, Bosnia was on the brink of war as they declared independence from Yugoslavia.
