O, tam uyumak üzereydi.
- He was just on the verge of going to sleep.
Tom ağlamak üzereydi.
- Tom was on the verge of tears.
The company paid their wages until the end of August, but is rumoured to be on the verge of bankruptcy.
Çocuklar ağlamak üzereydi.
- The children were on the verge of crying.
Liisa ağlamak üzereydi.
- Liisa was on the verge of tears.
Zavallı kedi açlıktan ölmenin eşiğindeydi.
- The poor cat was on the verge of starvation.
Birçok böcek türleri yok olmanın eşiğindedir.
- Many species of insects are on the verge of extinction.
I was on the verge of tears.
Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adèle, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed.
Every time I thought he was on the verge of telling us, he decided to say something else instead.
... was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because ...