Sentence examples of "was on the verge" in English
He was on the verge of revealing the secret when a sharp look from Martha shut him up.
Er war nahe daran, das Geheimnis preiszugeben, aber ein scharfer Blick von Martha brachte ihn zum Schweigen.
Many species of insects are on the verge of extinction.
Viele Insektenarten sind vom Aussterben bedroht.
Tom and Mary were on the verge of diving, off the left edge of the sentence, in the infinite corpus, when they spotted underneath a shoal of hungry contributors, teeth out, ready to jump on them and shred their mistakes down to the last one.
Tom und Mary schickten sich gerade an, vom linken Rand des Satzes in die Unendlichkeit des Korpus abzutauchen, als sie unten einen Schwarm hungriger, zähnefletschender Mitarbeiter erblickten, die nur darauf warteten, sich auf sie zu stürzen und ihre Fehler bis aufs Letzte zu zerreißen.
My father's company is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Die Firma meines Vaters ist am Rande des Bankrotts.
His name was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't remember it.
Sein Name lag mir auf der Zunge, aber er fiel mir nicht ein.
This house was on the market for three years before it sold.
Das Haus war drei Jahre im Angebot, bevor es verkauft wurde.
Tom leafed through the magazine that was on the coffee table.
Tom blätterte durch die Zeitschrift, die auf dem Wohnzimmertisch lag.
My neighborhood has a parade on the 4th of July.
In meinem Viertel gibt es am vierten Juli eine Parade.
Tom drew a happy face on the cover of his notebook.
Tom zeichnete ein freudestrahlendes Gesicht auf den Einband seines Notizbuchs.
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